my %args = (
     'info_url' => 'http://ga.greens.org/mailman/listinfo/gpga-news',
     'base_url' => 'http://ga.greens.org/pipermail/gpga-news',
    'list_name' => 'gpga-news',
     'audience' => 'Greens',
  'description' => 'News by, about and for Greens',
       'cycles' => 2,
  'output_file' => 't/tmp/gpga_news_feed.html',
   'rss_output' => 't/tmp/gpga_news_feed.rss',
     'template' => 't/tmpl/gpga_news_feed.tmpl',
  );

my $news_feed = $feed->render_feed(\%args);

# this is fragile and will break in two weeks
my $latest_month = '2011-February';
my $next_latest_month = '2011-January';

like($news_feed,qr/$latest_month/,'Feed includes latest month');
like($news_feed,qr/$next_latest_month/,'it also includes the second most recent month');