cucumber features not working about mail HOT 4 CLOSED

Hi Karl,

I started with Cucumber in Mail, but it didn't seem to fit very well, as Mail is a very low level library.

I haven't run the cucumber scenarios for months, that's why they don't work.

If you can get them working, fantastic, go for it.

Otherwise, make an rspec networks/delivery_agents/imap spec file and go from there.

Mikel

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I had an experience trying to rspec an imap implementation and mocking out all of the ruby imap method calls proved to be a pain and I wasn't quite sure it was an effective way of testing. I ended up creating some high level cucumber features that connected to a real test email account. This was also not that ideal because of the slowness and lack of isolation from the imap server. In the end though, it was the most effective way for me to feel comfortable that my code was still working.

What's your thoughts in how to best write tests for the imap implementation? Do you think connecting to some test imap accounts on gmail from cucumber makes sense? Is there a better way to mock out calls in the imap library?

thx.

-karl

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We will stub out the ruby imap library then (We talked offline).

thx

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