How do you test production emails?

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi,

We are sending emails. Recently an error started occurring because of Ahoy and when clicking on a link in the email the user gets “Link expired”.

This only happens on production. I was wondering how would you test this to avoid such regressions? (not, I don’t know what is the issue still, but It occurs only on production)

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Are you linking to compiled assets (sprockets) by any chance? If so, these links will break over time as those assets are garbage collected between deploys.

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I don’t understand how the question about linking to compiled assets is related? Could you help me understand?

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Sorry, I might have misread the question. I had a problem once where I was linking to compiled sprockets assets (e.g. a documentation PDF) in an email, but since an email can be viewed a long time into the future we can’t link to assets that eventually get deleted say if the PDF file’s contents changes and it gets a new hash in its name.

Probably nothing to do with your particular problem though. I’m not familiar with Ahoy.