Run Mailcatcher with rbenv automatically in the background on OS X

README.md

Mailcatcher makes it super easy to preview emails locally for development. These instructions let you run it all the time in the background on OS X.

Note: This assumes you are using rbenv

First, install mailcatcher. Do this in your home directory because it often has gem conflicts otherwise.

cd ~ && gem install mailcatcher

Now copy the me.mailcatcher.plist file below and paste it as a launch agent:

pbpaste > ~/Library/LaunchAgents/me.mailcatcher.plist

Now load it with launchctl:

launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/me.mailcatcher.plist

Install Pow:

curl get.pow.cx | sh

Set up a Pow alias to make mailcatcher's URL easy to remember:

echo 1080 > ~/.pow/mail

Now just go to http://mail.dev and you're good to go!

me.mailcatcher.plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>Label</key>
	<string>me.mailcatcher</string>
	<key>ProgramArguments</key>
	<array>
		<string>sh</string>
		<string>-i</string>
		<string>-c</string>
    <string>$SHELL --login -c "~/.rbenv/shims/mailcatcher --foreground"</string>
	</array>
	<key>KeepAlive</key>
	<true/>
	<key>RunAtLoad</key>
	<true/>
</dict>
</plist>