Action mailer Development Envrionment Rails 3

Question

So it seems as if I always run into an issue when setting up a mailer in development mode, I cant see anything wrong with my setup, maybe someone else can see something? At the moment when i send an email via my contact form there is no redirect and the params of the email get passed via the url and the same page gets rendered

http://localhost:3000/contact?utf8=%E2%9C%93&authenticity_token=123456exampletoken%3D&message%5Bname%5D=richard+lewis&message%5Bemail%5D=richlewis14%40gmail.com&message%5Bwebsite%5D=bbc.co.uk&message%5Bmessage%5D=test%0D%0A&commit=Send+Message

Ok so my development environment looks like so

 #Mailer Config
 config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = true
 config.action_mailer.perform_deliveries = true
 config.action_mailer.default_url_options = { host: "localhost:3000" }


 config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
 config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
 address: "smtp.gmail.com",
 port: 587,
 domain: "gmail.com",
 authentication: "plain",
 enable_starttls_auto: true,
 user_name: "myusername",
 password: "mypassword"
}

I have a Contact Controller

class ContactController < ApplicationController

  def new
    @message = Message.new
  end

  def create
  @message = Message.new(params[:message])
   if @message.valid?
    ContactMailer.send_mail(@message).deliver
    redirect_to(root_path, :notice => "Thanks for your message, I will be in touch soon")
       else
        render :new
      end
    end
  end

Mailer

class ContactMailer < ActionMailer::Base
 default from: "richlewis14@gmail.com"

 def send_mail(message)
  @message = message
  mail(to: "richlewis14@gmail.com", subject: "Message From Blog Site")
 end
end

Mailer text File

<p> You have a new Email</p>

<p><%= @contact.name %></p>
<p><%= @contact.email %></p>
<p><%= @contact.website %></p>
<p><%= @contact.message %></p>

Message model

class Message
 include ActiveModel::Validations
 include ActiveModel::Conversion
 extend ActiveModel::Naming

 attr_accessor :name, :email, :website, :message


def initialize(attributes = {})
 attributes.each do |name, value|
  send("#{name}=", value)
end
end

def persisted?
 false
end
end

And finally my routes

 #CONTACT FORM
 match 'contact' => 'contact#new', :as => 'contact', :via => :get   
 match 'contact' => 'contact#create', :as => 'contact', :via => :post

UPDATE

Ok so despite suggestions below i cannot get my form to post, it keeps rendering a get request, my form looks like so

  <div id="contact-form-wrap">
    <form id="contact-form">
     <%= form_for @message, :url => contact_path, :method => :post do |f| %>

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    <div class="contact-left">
     <p class="input-block clearfix">
      <%= f.text_field :name, :id => 'contact_name', :placeholder => 'Name' %>
     </p>

    <p class="input-block">
     <%= f.text_field :email, :id => 'contact_email', :placeholder => 'Email' %>
   </p>

    <p class="input-block last">  
     <%= f.text_field :website, :id => 'contact_url', :placeholder => 'Website' %> 
    </p>
  </div><!--end:contact-left-->


 <div class="contact-right">
  <p class="textarea-block">  
  <%= f.text_area :message, :id => 'contact_message', :rows => 6, :placeholder => 'Message' %>                    
  </p>
</div><!--end:contact-right-->

<div class="clear"></div>                            
  <p class="contact-button clearfix">   
    <%= f.submit 'Send Message', :id => 'submit-contact' %>                 
  </p>
  <div class="clear"></div>   
  <% end %>                     
</form>


 </div><!--contact-form-wrap-->

Answer 1

it appears that your form (not shown) is using a GET method, and not matching the create route which is post. Try changing the Form in your view to use POST. and that should invoke the create method. Looking in your logs I am guessing it is executing the new method

change this.

 <form id="contact-form">
      <%= form_for @message, :url => contact_path, :method => :post do |f| %>

to this

  <%= form_for @message, :url => contact_path, :method => :post, :html => {:id => 'contact-form' } do |f| %> 

and remove the last </form> as well. since the form_for helper will add it as part of the block. This will remove the nested forms, and should allow you to post / send mail.