From: Matt Armstrong <matt@...>
Date: 2003-02-14T02:09:38+09:00
Subject: Unit testing or mocking Net::SMTP

Say I have a class that sends mail.  It has a method with this in it:

    Net::SMTP.start(host) { |smtp|
        smtp.send_mail(message, sender, *recipients)
    }

How can I best unit test this?

Should I alias Net::SMTP.start to something else and replace it with a
mock implementation in my test case's startup, then restore it in
teardown?

Any libraries or examples of where this is done elegantly?

-- 
matt