rspec-email - How to get the body text?

Question

I'm using rspec with the email-spec gem. I'm trying to do:

last_delivery = ActionMailer::Base.deliveries.last
last_delivery.body.should include "This is the text of the email"

But that doesn't work, is there a way to say body, text version? Content-Type: text/text?

Thanks

score 38 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 22 '11 at 11:31

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Body is actually a Mail::Body instance. Calling raw_source on it should do the trick:

last_delivery = ActionMailer::Base.deliveries.last
last_delivery.body.raw_source.should include "This is the text of the email"

answered Mar 22 '11 at 11:31

Alberto F. Capel

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Just a quick side note: if you're using multi-part e-mails, you first need to select the correct part like so: `last_delivery.parts.first.body.raw_source.should include "This is the text of the email"` – Pascal Lindelauf Dec 21 '11 at 19:46
You juste made my day @PascalLindelauf! Thanks – Francois Feb 10 '17 at 11:21
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This comment also saved me an hour of work @PascalLindelauf - thank you! – armont_development Jan 05 '23 at 17:47

score 20 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 11 '13 at 23:38

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After trying all the above options and failing to get it working (Rails 3.2.13), I found some info in the ruby guide (section 6 is on testing with TestUnit) and got this to work exactly as needed:

last_delivery = ActionMailer::Base.deliveries.last
last_delivery.encoded.should include("This is the text of the email")

Hope that helps!

answered Jun 11 '13 at 23:38

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This can actually fail when the encoded mail contains line breaks marked by "=" like "This is the=\ntext of the email" – Alexander Presber Dec 13 '16 at 10:41
yes, but you can delete those new lines with: last_delivery.encoded.should.delete("=\n") – Goaul May 19 '22 at 13:19

Giovanni Benussi · Answer 3 · 2018-01-12T01:10:00.947

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If you have an html template (example.html.erb) you could use:

last_delivery.html_part.body.to_s

Or, if you have a plain-text (example.text.erb) template:

last_delivery.text_part.body.to_s

Source: In Rails why is my mail body empty only in my test?

edited Jan 12 '18 at 01:10

answered Dec 14 '17 at 02:13

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CuriousMind · Answer 4 · 2013-12-16T14:17:55.817

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you can just call #to_s on it.

last_delivery.to_s.should include "This is the text of the email"

For multipart emails:

last_delivery.first.to_s.should include "This is the text of the email"

Tested & found to be working on Rails 4

edited Dec 16 '13 at 14:17

answered Oct 31 '13 at 10:55

CuriousMind

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multi-part e-mails, you first need to select the correct part. Updated the answer. if this doesn't work. Let me know – CuriousMind Dec 16 '13 at 14:18

Lev Lukomsky · Answer 5 · 2019-03-26T16:30:44.953

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Generic way to get body text:

(mail.html_part || mail.text_part || mail).body.decoded

If an email is multipart (mail.multipart?) then its mail.html_part or mail.text_part are defined, otherwise they are nil and mail.body.decoded returns email's content.

You can use also body.to_s instead of body.decoded.

edited Mar 26 '19 at 16:30

answered Mar 19 '19 at 19:29

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score 0 · Answer 6 · edited Aug 27 '14 at 00:53

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In Rails 4 the default last_delivery.body.should include "This is the text of the email" works fine for me.

edited Aug 27 '14 at 00:53

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answered Aug 27 '14 at 00:14

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score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Aug 15 '19 at 14:57

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Actually there is no need to send a mail in order to test the content. You could just test:

expect(YourMailer.mail_to_test.body).to include "your string"

answered Aug 15 '19 at 14:57

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score -2 · Answer 8 · answered Apr 02 '14 at 09:43

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expect(last_delivery).to have_body_text(/This is the text of the email/)

source

answered Apr 02 '14 at 09:43

Hugo Stieglitz

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`has_body_text` is not a method for email – james Aug 27 '14 at 00:13

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