Laravel unit testing emails

Question

My system sends a couple of important emails. What is the best way to unit test that?

I see you can put it in pretend mode and it goes in the log. Is there something t

Answer 1

"Option 1" from "@The Shift Exchange" is not working in Laravel 5.1, so here is modified version using Proxied Partial Mock:

$mock = \Mockery::mock($this->app['mailer']->getSwiftMailer());
$this->app['mailer']->setSwiftMailer($mock);
$mock
    ->shouldReceive('send')
    ->withArgs([\Mockery::on(function($message)
    {
        $this->assertEquals('My subject', $message->getSubject());
        $this->assertSame(['foo@bar.com' => null], $message->getTo());
        $this->assertContains('Some string', $message->getBody());
        return true;
    }), \Mockery::any()])
    ->once();

Answer 2

I think that inspecting the log is not the good way to go.

You may want to take a look at how you can mock the Mail facade and check that it receives a call with some parameters.