I was running the functional test and didn’t realize it was sending actual emails from my data fixtures. However, I did learn how to globally set the email settings so not to send the emails out during tests.
If you want to use this, create a file called global_email_settings.rb (or whatever you want to name it) and put it in your your config/initializers/ folder. Restart your server to get rolling.
begin unless ENV['RAILS_ENV'] == 'test' ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :smtp ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = { :address => 'smtp.domain.com', :port => 101, :domain => 'domain.com', :authentication => :plain, :user_name => "", :password => "
" } endend 
