Creating a simple contact form with Ruby on Rails is straight forward and simple but I found an even simpler way of doing your contact form.
If all you want is an email sent to you with the details of the contact form then I recommend that you take a look at formspree. It allows you to add a form on your page that will be emailed to a desired address and it’s real simple to get going.
Here is the form html used on my-grocery-price-book.co.za
<form action="https://formspree.io/info@my-grocery-price-book.co.za"
method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="_next" value="<%= thank_you_url %>" />
<input type="hidden" name="_subject" value="My Price Grocery Book contact" />
<input type="text" name="_gotcha" style="display:none" />
<div class="form-group">
<label for="input_your_name">Your Name</label>
<input id="input_your_name" name="name" class="form-control" placeholder="Your Name">
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="input_email_address">Email address</label>
<input type="email" name="_replyto" class="form-control" id="input_email_address" placeholder="Email">
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="textarea_message">Message</label>
<textarea class="form-control" rows="3" name="message" id="textarea_message"></textarea>
</div>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-default">Send</button>
</form>
Thats it, you now have a contact form. Because the form is plain html you can even use this on static sites. Have a look on the formspree website for more details.
Grant Petersen-Speelman 