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At the office we are getting more and more serious about RSpec . Today we ran into two things we had not done so far. Specing an ActionMailer and a module. The Rails Way only covered Test::Unit and that looked dreadful. Way to much code. I still think I should be coding applications not tests. A quick google turned up not so much, nor did the RSpec site help. Fortunately someone on the RSpec mailinglist brought the subject up. With that I knew enough to get the tests working.

before(:each) do
ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :test
ActionMailer::Base.perform_deliveries = true
ActionMailer::Base.deliveries = []
end

This before block set the method for delivery method to :test. Normally it default to :smtp and an other possibility is :sendmail. The second directive tells ActionMailer to actually send the emails(who would have guessed?). The deliveries array keeps track of every email sen, which can be useful if you’re partypoker.com flemish and send lots of emails or if you’re an ordinary guy and just send a few emails.t.

Now you can just send your email as you usually would:

mail = Notifications.deliver_some_random_email("name")
ActionMailer::Base.deliveries.size.should == 1
mail.body.should =~ /name/

Rock on RSpec.