Hello, I am trying to make a very basic "contact me" form on my website. I have tried the following tutorials: http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=15172 http://railsforum.com/viewtopic.php?id=404 http://forums.site5.com/showthread.php?t=18522 http://www.buildingwebapps.com/podcasts/6798-adding-a-contact-form-and-mailer/show_notes http://digitalpardoe.co.uk/blog/show/56
I found the last one to fit my needs the best. I need to have forms for a person's name, email address and message. Upon clicking a submit button, I want that information emailed to a hardcoded email address.
My setup is as follows:
/config/environment.rb: [code=] ... (at the end) ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :smtp ActionMailer::Base.server_settings = { :address => 'localhost', #was told by hostgator that these are the correct settings :port => 25, :authentication => :login, # Don't change this one. :user_name => "mailer_username", :password => "mailer_password" } ActionMailer::Base.perform_deliveries = true ActionMailer::Base.raise_delivery_errors = true ActionMailer::Base.default_charset = "utf-8" [/code] /app/models/emailer.rb: [code=] class Emailer < ActionMailer::Base def contact_email(email_params, sent_at = Time.now) # You only need to customize @recipients. @recipients = "myemail@example.com" @from = email_params[:name] + " <" + @email_params[:address] + ">" @subject = email_params[:subject] @sent_on = sent_at @body["email_body"] = email_params[:body] @body["email_name"] = email_params[:name] end end [/code] /app/controllers/emailer_controller.rb [code=] class EmailerController < ApplicationController def send_mail Emailer::deliver_contact_email(params[:email]) end end[/code] /app/views/emailer/contact_email.rhtml (this is the formatting of the message sent) [code=] Name:
<%= @email_name %>
Message:
<%= @email_body %> [/code] /app/views/emailer/contact_page.rhtml (this is the form from which the message is made) [code=] <% form_tag :action => "send_mail" do %> <table> <tr> <td><label for="email_name">Name:</label></td> <td><%= text_field "email", "name", :size => 30 %></td> </tr> <tr> <td><label for="email_address">Email Address:</label></td> <td><%= text_field "email", "address", :size => 30 %></td> </tr> <tr> <td><label for="email_subject">Subject:</label></td> <td><%= text_field "email", "subject", :size => 30 %></td> </tr> <tr> <td><label for="email_body">Body:</label></td> <td><%= text_area "email", "body", :rows => 8, :cols => 30 %></td> </tr> </table>
<input type="submit" value="Send Email" class="primary" /> <% end %> [/code] /app/config/routes.rb: [code=] ... map.connect 'contactme', :controller => 'emailer', :action => 'contact_page' #testing ... [/code] When I fill out the contact forms and send, nothing happens. The only error I was getting with script/server was a depreciation error with the view, but Duplex helped me fix that.
I contacted hostgator to see if my settings in environment.rb were correct, and they said they were. So I'm thinking I wasn't supposed to put the "def send_mail..." in it's own separate controller? I'm really not sure because this looks right to me.
Some other information: I'm using simplelog 2.0.2 as my blogging platform on rails 2.0.2 and I'm trying to add this contact form to it. Simplelog works wonderfully, but maybe its causing problems for the mailer. Another thing, when I change "Base.server_settings" to "Base.smtp_settings" in /config/environment.rb, rails fails to start. I thought "Base.smtp_settings" was the new, better way for that setting. Does anyone have any hints for me on how to get this mailer working? I've spent days trying to figure this out, please help.
If you read all of that, thank you very much for your time 
