Why create a Notification record when the DeliveryMethod isn't going to notify that recipient ?

[gap777]

First off, my gratitude to @excid3 for this work. It's tremendous and appreciated.

My question originates from a effort to gain confidence my software is doing what I expect (ie, testing). We're adding in
delivery preferences, and I want to be sure that I've configured up my Notifiers (controllers) correctly:

deliver_by :postmark do |config|
      config.if = ->{ recipient.notify?(:email)}

as per https://github.com/excid3/noticed?tab=readme-ov-file#tip-capture-user-preferences

I found #318 and loved the test code his approach allows me to write:

          it 'sends a notification only to active supplier users' do
            # when
            described_class.new.handle_event(event)
            # then
            expect(supplier_user).to have_received_notification MessagePostedNotifier
            expect(user_hating_email).not_to have_received_notification MessagePostedNotifier
         end

His approach to that custom matcher is to look for Notification records. That doesn't help in this case, because
Notification records are created even when the actual notification message is not sent to the recipient due to the :if clause.

This begs a few questions ---

Q1. Why? Isn't the purpose of the Notification model the idea that a given recipient is being notified on a given channel about a given thing?

Q2. How? Is there another way you would suggest to implement such a matcher, and test that notifications do or do not go out to users under different circumstances?

Thanks for entertaining my inquiry.