ActionMailer: Test failed but works in development environment

The ActionMailer in my Rails 3.1 project has an odd behavior, the
ActionMailer::Base.deliveries is empty in test while I can actually
receive the email by running the code in rails console. Anybody can
points out what wrong it is?

spec/mailers/user_mailer_spec.rb

require “spec_helper”

describe UserMailer do
describe “.reminding_email” do
subject { UserMailer.reminding_email(user).deliver }
let(:user) { create :confirmed_user_with_mass_tasks }
it “should be delivered” do
ActionMailer::Base.deliveries.should_not be_empty
end
its(:to) { should == [user.email] }
its(:subject) { should == “Task Reminding” }
end
end

app/mailers/user_mailer.rb

class UserMailer < ActionMailer::Base
layout “email”
default from: Rails.env.production? ? “@gmail.com” :
@gmail.com
def reminding_email(user)
@tasks = user.tasks.reminding_required
@current = Time.current
mail(to: user.email, subject: “Task Reminding”)
end
end
Failures:

  1. UserMailer.reminding_email should be delivered Failure/Error:
    ActionMailer::Base.deliveries.should_not be_empty expected empty? to
    return false, got true # ./spec/mailers/user_mailer_spec.rb:8:in `block
    (3 levels) in ’

Finished in 11.81 seconds 42 examples, 1 failure, 2 pending

config/environments/test.rb

RemindersForMe::Application.configure do

Settings specified here will take precedence over those in

config/application.rb

The test environment is used exclusively to run your application’s

test suite. You never need to work with it otherwise. Remember

that

your test database is “scratch space” for the test suite and is

wiped

and recreated between test runs. Don’t rely on the data there!

config.cache_classes = true

Configure static asset server for tests with Cache-Control for

performance
config.serve_static_assets = true
config.static_cache_control = “public, max-age=3600”

Log error messages when you accidentally call methods on nil

config.whiny_nils = true

Show full error reports and disable caching

config.consider_all_requests_local = true
config.action_controller.perform_caching = false

Raise exceptions instead of rendering exception templates

config.action_dispatch.show_exceptions = false

Disable request forgery protection in test environment

config.action_controller.allow_forgery_protection = false

Tell Action Mailer not to deliver emails to the real world.

The :test delivery method accumulates sent emails in the

ActionMailer::Base.deliveries array.

config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :test

Use SQL instead of Active Record’s schema dumper when creating the

test database.

This is necessary if your schema can’t be completely dumped by the

schema dumper,

like if you have constraints or database-specific column types

config.active_record.schema_format = :sql

Print deprecation notices to the stderr

config.active_support.deprecation = :stderr

Setup default URL options as devise needed

config.action_mailer.default_url_options = { :host => ‘localhost:3000’
}
end
Application:

config/application.rb

require File.expand_path(‘…/boot’, FILE)

Pick the frameworks you want:

require “active_record/railtie”
require “action_controller/railtie”
require “action_mailer/railtie”
require “active_resource/railtie”
require “sprockets/railtie”

require “rails/test_unit/railtie”

if defined?(Bundler)

If you precompile assets before deploying to production, use this

line

Bundler.require(*Rails.groups(:assets => %w(development test)))

Bundler.require *Rails.groups(:assets) if defined?(Bundler)

If you want your assets lazily compiled in production, use this line

Bundler.require(:default, :assets, Rails.env)

end

module RemindersForMe
class Application < Rails::Application
# Settings in config/environments/* take precedence over those
specified here.
# Application configuration should go into files in
config/initializers
# – all .rb files in that directory are automatically loaded.

# Custom directories with classes and modules you want to be 

autoloadable.
# config.autoload_paths += %W(#{config.root}/extras)

# Only load the plugins named here, in the order given (default is 

alphabetical).
# :all can be used as a placeholder for all plugins not explicitly
named.
# config.plugins = [ :exception_notification, :ssl_requirement, :all
]

# Activate observers that should always be running.
# config.active_record.observers = :cacher, :garbage_collector, 

:forum_observer

# Set Time.zone default to the specified zone and make Active Record 

auto-convert to this zone.
# Run “rake -D time” for a list of tasks for finding time zone
names. Default is UTC.
# config.time_zone = ‘Central Time (US & Canada)’

# The default locale is :en and all translations from 

config/locales/.rb,yml are auto loaded.
# config.i18n.load_path += Dir[Rails.root.join(‘my’, ‘locales’,
'
.{rb,yml}').to_s]
# config.i18n.default_locale = :de

# Configure the default encoding used in templates for Ruby 1.9.
config.encoding = "utf-8"

# Configure sensitive parameters which will be filtered from the log 

file.
config.filter_parameters += [:password]

# Enable the asset pipeline
config.assets.enabled = true

# Version of your assets, change this if you want to expire all your 

assets
config.assets.version = ‘1.0’

# Set Rspec generator as default
config.generators do |g|
  g.test_framework :rspec
end

# Set Mailer of Devise
config.to_prepare do
  Devise::Mailer.layout "email"
end

end
end

Best regards,
Zhi-Qiang L.
[email protected]

On Dec 1, 3:14pm, Zhi-Qiang L. [email protected] wrote:

let(:user) { create :confirmed_user_with_mass_tasks }
it “should be delivered” do
ActionMailer::Base.deliveries.should_not be_empty
end

IIRC subject is evaluated lazily, so in this example
UserMailer.reminding_email(user).deliver wouldn’t be called at all

Fred