Question

I would like to turn off certain emails in development and on test/staging servers, but keep sending them in production. What I currently do is set the default “to” address for these administrative mails to blank:

  default :to => Rails.env.production? ? "[e-mail]" : ""

However, this puts stack traces in my development log when I’m testing the user mails which should be sending.

Is there a more effective way of disabling certain emails based on the current environment? I tried checking in the functions themselves, but is not ideal because I have to change each function, plus it doesn’t actually work… it just fails to set the needed @account variable before rendering the email and creating a different stack trace.

  def user_registered_notify_email(account)
    if Rails.env.production?
      @account = account
      mail(:subject => "New user registered: #{@account.full_name}")
    end
  end

Answer 1

I usually use mail interceptors as described here: http://asciicasts.com/episodes/206-action-mailer-in-rails-3