Quick Amazon SES setup for Rails app

Amazon SES & Rails app

Quick way to setup Amazon SES as a mailer for a Rails app

amazon_ses.rb

# config/initializers/amazon_ses.rb
ActionMailer::Base.add_delivery_method :ses, AWS::SES::Base,
  :access_key_id     => '##YOUR_KEY##',
  :secret_access_key => '##YOUR_SECRET_KEY##'

Gemfile

gem 'aws-ses', :require => "aws/ses"

production.rb

# config/environments/production.rb
config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :ses

With this configuration mailer will use default SES endpoint (it will not take AWS_REGION from environment).
So, you'll have to configure it also if you're using non-default region:

ActionMailer::Base.add_delivery_method :ses, AWS::SES::Base,
                                       :access_key_id => ENV['AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID'],
                                       :secret_access_key => ENV['AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY'],
                                       :server => 'email.' + ENV['AWS_REGION'] + '.amazonaws.com'