Lettuce and django email

[oinopion]

I've just spent 2 hours debugging why I can't access django.core.mail.outbox.
This led me to discovery of ThreadedServer which is not threaded at all, rather it's sub-process.
Because sub-process has separate memory, outbox on the parent process stays empty forever.
I'm not sure what's the best way to fix this, but some documentation should help.

Since this is one of Google's top post on using lettuce with Django, I think there should be some more clarification .

[oinopion]

There is very little room to make changes to email handling, since harvest command calls setup_test_environment that overwrites settings.EMAIL_BACKEND. I ended up with overwriting this setting in before.handle_request hook (since this is only hook running in server process) and using file-based email backend.

I think exposing EMAIL_BACKEND override would help tremendously.

[suvash]

I spent 6 hours today on this very same problem ! I agree with the above statement.

[suvash]

btw, @oinopion could you share how you overrode the setting ?

[oinopion]

Very simply:

# in terrain.py
from lettuce import before, after, world
from django.conf import settings

@before.handle_request
    def override_mail_settings(httpd, server):
        settings.EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.filebased.EmailBackend'

[suvash]

Ah nice, thanks a lot. I tried the same, and it took me a while to figure out that i didn't work when I put the terrain file in the features folder, but it did work in the root folder.

Thanks again.

[gabrielfalcao]

I'm about to release lettuce 0.2.0 with a new website and documentation which will have a full-featured django tutorial.
I'll make sure to point out this edge case in the tutorial.

Thanks

[kjin-]

@oinopion thanks for highlighting this here. I spent 3 hours on figuring this out before I saw this.

[gabrielfalcao]

closed by #313