How test emails?

Rails
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hi, i’m writing all following TDD, but what about a mail system, how can
i test it? how can i test that a mail has been sent? have i to use a
mock?

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david wrote:

hi, i’m writing all following TDD, but what about a mail system, how can
i test it? how can i test that a mail has been sent? have i to use a
mock?

ActionMailer has a mock system built in. Read your test.rb and
test_helper.rb files, then either use it or learn from it.

–
Phlip
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ZeekLand ← NOT a blog!!

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Phlip wrote:

ActionMailer has a mock system built in. Read your test.rb and
test_helper.rb files, then either use it or learn from it.

do you have a link to a guide?
thanks!

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On Mar 27, 6:01 pm, david [email protected] wrote:

do you have a link to a guide?
thanks!

Agile Web D. with Rails, 2nd Ed. has an excellent chapter on
testing email.

http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/rails/index.html

You can get just the .pdf if you want to.

Jeff