Email delivery in test environments
Our solution to this problem is to send all emails to a single address. This allows us to view the email and click the links without worrying about email messages from the test system polluting our inboxes. The only question is how do we acheive this?
Luckily, ActionMailer itself is pretty easy code to read. By tracing the path of the delivery methods, I came to a point where it calls perform_delivery_#{delivery_method}. How nice is that? The configuration directive config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :test means that perform_delivery_test will be called whenever an email is going to be sent in that environment. That means all we need to do is to create our own perform delivery method and set that configuration option. A few minutes later, we had:
<pre>
module ActionMailer
class Base
def perform_delivery_staging(mail)
mail.to="staging@elevatedrails.com"
mail.cc=""
mail.bcc=""
perform_delivery_sendmail(mail)
end
end
end
</pre>
Now, if you set config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :staging in an environment, all messages will be sent to staging@elevatedrails.com. What a simple solution!