Rails 3.2.13 Contact Form Only Sending Subject - ruby-on-rails-3

Question

So I followed this wonderfully flawed tutorial:
http://matharvard.ca/posts/2011/aug/22/contact-form-in-rails-3/
...on making contact forms. It works great. The only problem is that it ONLY sends the subject. I think maybe the problem is in the notifications mailer:
notifications_mailer.rb
class NotificationsMailer < ActionMailer::Base
default :from => "noreply#youdomain.dev"
default :to => "you#youremail.dev"
def new_message(message)
#message = message
mail(:subject => "[YourWebsite.tld] #{message.subject}")
end
end
I would, of course, like it to send ALL the info the user submitted... (name, email address, subject, and body.
Also I was wondering how I could do a simple version of this with just the body where the subject is set to a default. (I want to have a small comment box that would send an email to me with the comment.) Would I have to make a whole new controller and model for that, or could this handle both?
UPDATE
Notifications Mailer View / new.html.erb
Name: <%= #message.name %>
Email: <%= #message.email %>
Subject: <%= #message.subject %>
Body: <%= #message.body %>
contact controller
class ContactController < ApplicationController
def new
#message = Message.new
end
def create
#message = Message.new(params[:message])
if #message.valid?
NotificationsMailer.new_message(#message).deliver
flash[:success] = "Message was successfully sent."
redirect_to(root_path)
else
flash[:error] = "Please fill all fields."
render :new
end
end
end
message.rb
class Message
include ActiveModel::Validations
include ActiveModel::Conversion
extend ActiveModel::Naming
attr_accessor :name, :email, :subject, :body
validates :name, :email, :subject, :body, :presence => true
validates :email, :format => { :with => %r{.+#.+\..+} }, :allow_blank => true
def initialize(attributes = {})
attributes.each do |name, value|
send("#{name}=", value)
end
end
def persisted?
false
end
end
Basically it works... but it only sends the subject. I also got it to send a complete mail once with everything BUT the subject... but I can't remember how I did it.
Should I just smash this computer into a million pieces and go on a rampage?
Sigh...
UPDATE AGAIN
This is what the emails say with the above settings:
Subject: [liquid.radio] Whatever The Subject is. Body: Completely
blank
This is what they said after whatever the hell I did two weeks ago.
Subject: Message from liquid.radio
Body:
A contact enquiry was made by Richard Pryor at 2013-06-17 23:36.
Reply-To: richard#pryor.com
Subject: Scared for no reason Body: Oh
no... Oh God no! What is that?!
All I did was mess around with the notifications controller. Although I don't remember... for the life of me... what I did. But, as you can see... it send the complete message as it should... but a completely different subject.
Really kinda need help here.

Answer 1

First, this project places production settings in config/application.rb. Move the GMail ActionMailer settings to config/environments/production.rb. Add the letter_opener gem to your Gemfile's development group.
# Gemfile
group :development do
gem 'letter_opener'
end
Add the letter_opener settings to your development environment.
# config/environments/development.rb
config.action_mailer.default_url_options = { host: 'localhost', port: 3000 }
config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :letter_opener
config.action_mailer.perform_deliveries = true
config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = true
Add active_attr gem
# Gemfile
gem 'active_attr'
Make sure you run bundle install
Replace your messages model with robust ActiveAttr implementation.
# app/models/message.rb
class Message
include ActiveAttr::Model
attribute :name
attribute :email
attribute :subject
attribute :body
validates_presence_of :name, :email, :subject, :body
validates :email, :format => { :with => %r{.+#.+\..+} }, :allow_blank => true
end
Improve the routes.
# config/routes.rb
get 'contact' => 'contact#new', :as => 'contact'
post 'contact' => 'contact#create', :as => 'contact'
Make sure your email template is correct
# app/views/notifications_mailer/new_message.text.erb
Name: <%= #message.name %>
Email: <%= #message.email %>
Subject: <%= #message.subject %>
Body: <%= #message.body %>
Update: December 12, 2013
I've created a Rails 3.2 project on GitHub to assist anyone searching for a modern solution to creating contact forms in Rails. Merry Christmas!
https://github.com/scarver2/contact_form_app

Answer 2

Ultimately here's what I did... I realize this isn't a true solution. But I still don't have a different one.
notifications_mailer.rb
class NotificationsMailer < ActionMailer::Base
default :from => "example#gmail.com"
default :to => "example#gmail.com"
def new_message(message)
#message = message
mail(:subject => "[liquid.radio] #{message.subject}", :body => "
From: #{message.name}
Reply to: #{message.email}
Subject: #{message.subject}
Message: #{message.body}")
end
end
Not how the mailer is supposed to work at all... but at least it sends a complete message.
If you're in a time crunch... like I was... this will get you there. I will accept a real answer (probably scarver2's) once I stop getting blank emails any other way.