MailFactory – A rails plugin for testing email

I made a rails plugin called MailFactory, it generates an email object that you can use to test your email receiving in a rails app. Here’s how you use it:

Install:
script/plugin install git://github.com/thinkbohemian/MailFactory.git

Use:
mail = mail_factory(:from_email => from_email , :to_email => to_email , :subject => subject, :body => body)

Example:

If you want to simulate receiving an email from “foobar@example.com”,
sent to “you@example.com” with a subject of “my cool subject” and a
body of “this is only a test” you could create the object like this:

mail = mail_factory(:from_email => "foobar@example.com" ,<br /> :to_email => "you@example.com" , :subject => "my cool subject",<br /> :body => "this is only a test")

You can then use in your application as if rails had received an email:
TMail::Mail.parse(mail).from.to_s
=> “foobar@example.com”