Once you need to test mailers within your Sinara, Rails or Merb application you wish to see a real output. No need to setup delivery via SMTP. Just create an executable ruby script somewhere, for example: /usr/bin/fake-sendmail.sh with following content:
$ touch /usr/bin/fake-sendmail.sh $ chmod +x /usr/bin/fake-sendmail.sh # make it executable (will require root priv.)
#!/usr/bin/ruby path = "/tmp/fake-mailer" Dir.mkdir(path) if !File.exists?(path) File.open("#{path}/#{Time.now.to_i}.txt", "w") do |f| f.puts ARGV.inspect $stdin.each_line { |line| f.puts line } end
And then configure your mailing system:
1. Sinatra
There is a plugin for Sinatra (ported from Merb, http://github.com/foca/sinatra-mailer),
Sinatra::Mailer.config = {:sendmail_path => "/usr/bin/fake-sendmail.sh"} Sinatra::Mailer.delivery_method = :sendmail
2. Merb
Edit your development configuration file (config/environments/development.rb)
Merb::BootLoader.after_app_loads do Merb::Mailer.delivery_method = :sendmail Merb::Mailer.config = { :sendmail_path => '/usr/bin/fake-sendmail.sh' } end
3. Rails.
Edit your development environment file with following options:
config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :sendmail config.action_mailer.sendmail_settings = {:location => "/usr/bin/fake-sendmail.sh"}