[rspec-users] Cucumber + Webrat + Selenium + ActionMailer

[Pat Maddox]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Stephen Eley <sfeley at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Ben Mabey <ben at benmabey.com> wrote:
>>
>> One option is to use ARMailer[1] to queue your mail.  As long as your
>> selenium process and test process are using the same DB without transactions
>> getting in the way then ARMailer should work fine for what you want to do.
>
> Is changing production infrastructure solely for the sake of making
> tests work a recommended practice?  To me it feels a bit backwards.

I'm not commenting on this particular situation, but if I want to use
some library, but I can't figure out how to write tests for my code
that uses it, then I don't use it.

Basically, if I have to change something to make it testable, I do.

Pat