# Email debug best practices

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/email-debug-best-practices/160729>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 19, 2009, 6:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/email-debug-best-practices/160729 "2009-02-19T06:57:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 6:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/email-debug-best-practices/160729/1 "2009-02-19T06:57:43Z")

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I’m writing a rails app that receives email. I’m trying to parse using  
Tmail, but my normal method of debugging (using “puts” to output to my  
console) doesn’t seem give me any output. What are some tatics I should  
use while playing around with the tmail api, and my app?