CapybaraEmail

Easily test ActionMailer and Mail messages in your Capybara integration tests

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'capybara-email'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install capybara-email

Usage

RSpec

In your spec_helper.rb require capybara/email/rspec.

require 'capybara/email/rspec'

Example:

feature 'Emailer' do
  background do
    # will clear the message queue
    clear_emails
    visit email_trigger_path
    # Will find an email sent to [email protected]
    # and set `current_email`
    open_email('[email protected]')
  end

  scenario 'following a link' do
    current_email.click_link 'your profile'
    expect(page).to have_content 'Profile page'
  end

  scenario 'testing for content' do
    expect(current_email).to have_content 'Hello Joe!'
  end

  scenario 'testing for attachments' do
    expect(current_email.attachments.first.filename).to eq 'filename.csv'
  end

  scenario 'testing for a custom header' do
    expect(current_email.headers).to include 'header-key'
  end

  scenario 'testing for a custom header value' do
    expect(current_email.header('header-key')).to eq 'header_value'
  end

  scenario 'view the email body in your browser' do
    # the `launchy` gem is required
    current_email.save_and_open
  end
end

Cucumber

Require capybara/email in your features/support/env.rb

require 'capybara/email'

Once you have required capybara-email, gaining access to usable methods is easy as adding this module to your Cucumber World:

World(Capybara::Email::DSL)

I recommend adding this to a support file such as features/support/capybara_email.rb

require 'capybara/email'
World(Capybara::Email::DSL)

Example:

Scenario: Email is sent to winning user
  Given "[email protected]" is playing a game
  When that user picks a winning piece
  Then "[email protected]" receives an email with "You've Won!" as the subject

Then /^"([^"]*)" receives an email with "([^"]*)" as the subject$/ do |email_address, subject|
  open_email(email_address)
  expect(current_email.subject).to eq subject
end

Test::Unit

Require capybara/email at the top of test/test_helper.rb

  require 'capybara/email'

Include Capybara::Email::DSL in your test class

class ActionDispatch::IntegrationTest
  include Capybara::Email::DSL
end

Example:

class EmailTriggerControllerTest < ActionDispatch::IntegrationTest
  def setup
    # will clear the message queue
    clear_emails
    visit email_trigger_path

    # Will find an email sent to `[email protected]`
    # and set `current_email`
    open_email('[email protected]')
  end

  test 'testing any email is sent' do
    expect(all_emails).not_to be_empty
  end

  test 'following a link' do
    current_email.click_link 'your profile'
    expect(page).to have_content 'Profile page'
  end

  test 'testing for content' do
    expect(current_email).to have_content 'Hello Joe!'
  end

  test 'testing for a custom header' do
    expect(current_email.headers).to include 'header-key'
  end

  test 'testing for a custom header value' do
    expect(current_email.header('header-key')).to eq 'header_value'
  end

  test 'view the email body in your browser' do
    # the `launchy` gem is required
    current_email.save_and_open
  end
end

CurrentEmail API

The current_email method will delegate all necessary method calls to Mail::Message. So if you need to access the subject of an email:

current_email.subject

Check out API for the mail gem for details on what methods are available.

Setting your test host

When testing, it's common to want to open an email and click through to your application. To do this, you'll probably need to update your test environment, as well as Capybara's configuration.

By default, Capybara's app_host is set to http://example.com. You should update this so that it points to the same host as your test environment. In our example, we'll update both to http://localhost:3001:

# tests/test_helper.rb
ActionDispatch::IntegrationTest do
  Capybara.server_port = 3001
  Capybara.app_host = 'http://localhost:3001'
end

# config/environments/test.rb
config.action_mailer.default_url_options = { host: 'localhost', 
                                             port: 3001 }

Sending Emails with JavaScript

Sending emails asynchronously will cause #open_email to not open the correct email or not find any email at all depending on the state of the email queue. We recommend forcing a sleep prior to trying to read any email after an asynchronous event:

click_link 'Send email'
sleep 0.1
open_email '[email protected]'

Authors

Brian Cardarella

We are very thankful for the many contributors

Versioning

This gem follows Semantic Versioning

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Legal

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Licensed under the MIT license