Contact Form Mailer Undefined Method Error Rails - ruby-on-rails

Question

I have been having some serious trouble all weekend trying to get this basic contact form to work correctly.
Effectively I want the user to be able to complete the form, hit send and have the message send straight to a predefined email address.
The error I am continually getting is:
NoMethodError in Messages#new
Showing C:/Sites/jobapp_v2/app/views/messages/new.html.erb where line #1 raised:
undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass
Extracted source (around line #1):
1: <%= form_for #message, :url => contact_path do |f| %>
2:
3: <div class="field">
4: <%= f.label :name %>
I have the following setup:
Messages controller
class MessagesController < ApplicationController
def new
#user = current_user
#message = Message.new
end
def create
#message = Message.new(params[:message])
if #message.valid?
NotificationsMailer.new_message(#message).deliver
redirect_to(root_path, :notice => "Message was successfully sent.")
else
flash.now.alert = "Please fill all fields."
render :new
end
end
end
Message Model
class Message < ActiveRecord::Base
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
Routes.rb
JobappV2::Application.routes.draw do
devise_for :users
resources :newsletters
match "contact" => "messages#new", :as => "contact", :via => :get
match "contact" => "messages#create", :as => "contact", :via => :post
get "pages/about"
get "pages/contact"
get "pages/terms"
resources :jobs
resources :users do
resources :jobs
end
root :to => 'jobs#index'
end
NotificationsMailer.rb
class NotificationsMailer < ActionMailer::Base
default :from => "advertise#artisanmag.co.uk"
default :to => "tom.pinchen#artisanmag.co.uk"
def new_message(message)
#message = message
mail(:subject => "Hello")
end
end
Views/notification_mailer/new_message.text.erb
Name: <%= #message.name %>
Email: <%= #message.email %>
Subject: <%= #message.subject %>
Body: <%= #message.body %>
Views/messages/new.html.erb
<%= form_for #message, :url => contact_path do |f| %>
<div class="field">
<%= f.label :name %>
<%= f.text_field :name %>
</div>
<div class="field">
<%= f.label :email %>
<%= f.text_field :email %>
</div>
<div class="field">
<%= f.label :subject %>
<%= f.text_field :subject %>
</div>
<div class="field">
<%= f.label :body %>
<%= f.text_area :body %>
</div>
<%= f.submit "Send" %>
<% end %>
I really for can't work out at all what is causing this undefined method error so any help people can offer would really be much appreciated! Thanks in Advance :)

Answer 1

The way you have hooked things up, you don't need :url => contact_path
<%= form_for #message do |f| %>
will work just fine.