ActionMailer working fine in terminal, not sending to gmail - ruby-on-rails

Question

I'm just about in the finishing stages of my website, however I am having trouble with the ActionMailer. It prints out the message just fine, I'm just eager to know how to wire it so it can send to gmail account. I'm primary confused how to route it and configure it properly. I have a contact page that has a model that takes parameters like the recipient, subject, message and the time it was sent: Mailer model: Note all this code is on a local machine
class UserEmail < ActionMailer::Base
default from: 'XXX#gmail.com'
def contact(sender, subject, message, sent_at = Time.now)
#sender = sender
#message = message
#sent_at = sent_at.strftime("%B %e, %Y at %H:%M")
mail(:subject => subject)
end
end
Here's the about controller which the contact methods lie in:
class AboutController < ApplicationController
# ...\controllers\home_controller.rb
#----------------------------------------------------
# show contact form
def contact
#title = "Contact"
#sender = ''
#subject = ''
#message = ''
end
def sendmail
#sender = params[:sender]
#subject = params[:subject]
#message = params[:message]
if validate(#sender, #subject, #message)
UserEmail.contact(#sender, #subject, #message).deliver
flash[:success] = "Your message sent sucessfully!"
redirect_to about_index_path
else
flash.now[:error] = "Your message did not send"
redirect_to about_index_path
end
end
private
def validate(sender, subject, message)
#email_regex = /\A[\w+\-.]+#[a-z\d\-.]+\.[a-z]+\z/i
if sender.blank? || subject.blank? || message.blank?
#error = "Message not sent: Required information not filled"
return false
elsif subject.length >= 50
#error = "Message not sent: Subject must be smaller than 50 characters"
return false
elsif sender[#email_regex].nil?
#error = "Message not sent: Email not valid"
return false
else
return true
end
end
end
Now this is where I am lost.
Here's what my route like to the mailer. Is this routed appropriately?:
match '/contact_email', :to => 'about#sendmail'
When I configure the mailer, does the code rest in the application.rb or the development.rb? Here's what I have in my application.rb:
config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = true
config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
:address => "smtp.gmail.com",
:port => 587,
:user_name => 'XXX#gmail.com',
:password => 'XXX',
:authentication => 'plain',
:enable_starttls_auto => true,
}
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Change
def contact(sender, subject, message, sent_at = Time.now)
#sender = sender
#message = message
#sent_at = sent_at.strftime("%B %e, %Y at %H:%M")
mail(:subject => subject)
end
to
def contact(sender, subject, message, recipient, sent_at = Time.now)
#sender = sender
#message = message
#sent_at = sent_at.strftime("%B %e, %Y at %H:%M")
#recipient = recipient
mail(:subject => subject, :to => #recipient)
end
And don't forget to set recipient in your calling function.

Answer 2

Have you put the following lines in development.rb
config.action_mailer.perform_deliveries = true
config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = true