how test emails?

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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.

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Agile Web Development 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