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Real-world email
Listing 12.13 config/initializers/mail.rb
ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
:user_name => "youraccount@gmail.com",
:password => "password",
:address => "smtp.gmail.com",
:port => 587,
:tls => true
}
With these settings in this file, you can rerun bin/cucumber features/gmail.feature
to see that it passes now up to the last two steps, which are undefined:
When /^I log into gmail with:$/ do |table|
# table is a Cucumber::Ast::Table
pending # express the regexp above with the code you wish you had
end
Then /^there should be an email from Ticketee in my inbox$/ do
pending # express the regexp above with the code you wish you had
end
With these step definitions, you’ll be able to connect to Gmail using settings specified
in a Cucumber table format and then check for the email, which should be sent by
steps earlier in this feature. You need to define these now.
12.3.3 Connecting to Gmail
You’ve now sent the email to the server, but you don’t have any steps in place to read
these emails from your Gmail account and check that one of the emails is from Ticketee.
As you can almost anticipate, there’s a gem that can help you with this, called
quite simply gmail. This gem will let you connect to a Gmail server using the username
and password you just used to set up an SMTP connection, and also read the
emails for that account. The code it uses looks like this:
Gmail.connect(username, password)
Figure 12.9
Configuring other
mail clients
You’ll also use this gem in the next section, when we look at how you can receive
emails into your application. It’s a pretty neat gem, and it’s got a great README, which
can be seen at http://github.com/nu7hatch/gmail.
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