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:
... (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"/app/models/emailer.rb:
class Emailer < ActionMailer::Base
def contact_email(email_params, sent_at = Time.now)
# You only need to customize @recipients.
@recipients = "[email protected]"
@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/app/controllers/emailer_controller.rb
class EmailerController < ApplicationController
def send_mail
Emailer::deliver_contact_email(params[:email])
end
end
/app/views/emailer/contact_email.rhtml (this is the formatting of the
message sent)
Name:
<%= @email_name %>
Message:
<%= @email_body %>/app/views/emailer/contact_page.rhtml (this is the form from which the
message is made)
<% 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 %>/app/config/routes.rb:
...
map.connect 'contactme', :controller => 'emailer', :action =>
'contact_page' #testing
...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 