Rails/Rspec: Testing delayed_job mails

Question

Just wondering how to test that actionmailer requests are actually sent to the delayed_job que in rspec.

I would have assumed it was quite simple, but my delayed_job que

Answer 1

I think your mock object is somehow introducing an error -- it's hard to tell exactly how without seeing the definition of the mock_contact method.

In any case, you might try something along these lines:

  it "queues mail when a contact is created" do
    Contact.stub(:new) { mock_model(Contact,:save => true) }
    Delayed::Job.count.should == 0
    post :create, {}
    Delayed::Job.count.should == 1
  end

or the sexier version (caveat: I always end up doing it the non-sexy way):

  it "queues mail when a contact is created" do
    Contact.stub(:new) { mock_model(Contact,:save => true) }
    expect {
      post :create, {}
    }.to change(Delayed::Job.count).by(1)
  end