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    copied!<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/vSWpq.png" alt="enter image description here"></p> <p>My app is something like Kijiji's email reply system. For each post, user can choose to reply to the post. I get this error when I submit.</p> <pre><code>Undefined method `contact_email' for nil:NilClass </code></pre> <p>I denoted the line that is causing the error below with **</p> <p>emailinterests_controller.rb</p> <pre><code>def create @emailinterest = Emailinterest.new(params[:emailinterest]) respond_to do |format| if @emailinterest.save **Notifier.emailinterest_notification(self, @submission).deliver** format.html { redirect_to(@emailinterest, :notice =&gt; 'Email was successfully sent!') } format.xml { render :xml =&gt; @emailinterest, :status =&gt; :created, :location =&gt; @emailinterest } else format.html { render :action =&gt; "new" } format.xml { render :xml =&gt; @emailinterest.errors, :status =&gt; :unprocessable_entity } end end end </code></pre> <p>"self" refers to the emailinterest object that's being emailed. @submission should refer to the current object that emailinterest object is interacting with.</p> <p>notifier.rb</p> <pre><code>**def emailinterest_notification(emailinterest, submission)** @emailinterest = emailinterest @submission = submission **mail :to =&gt; submission.contact_email,** :from =&gt; emailinterest.sender_email, :subject =&gt; 'actuirl.com - RE:' + submission.title end </code></pre> <hr> <h1>FIX</h1> <p><strong>C:\Rails\actuirl5\app\controllers\emailinterests_controller.rb</strong></p> <pre><code>def create @emailinterest = Emailinterest.new(params[:emailinterest]) @submission = Submission.find(params[:submission_id]) respond_to do |format| if @emailinterest.save Notifier.emailinterest_notification(@emailinterest, @submission).deliver format.html { redirect_to(@emailinterest, :notice =&gt; 'Email was successfully sent!') } format.xml { render :xml =&gt; @emailinterest, :status =&gt; :created, :location =&gt; @emailinterest } else format.html { render :action =&gt; "new" } format.xml { render :xml =&gt; @emailinterest.errors, :status =&gt; :unprocessable_entity } end end end </code></pre> <p><strong>C:\Rails\actuirl5\app\views\submissions_form_new_emailinterest.html.erb</strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;%= form_for(emailinterest) do |f| %&gt; &lt;%= hidden_field_tag :submission_id, value = @submission.id %&gt; &lt;div class="field"&gt; &lt;%= f.label :sender_email %&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;%= f.text_field :sender_email %&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="field"&gt; &lt;%= f.label :sender_email_content %&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;%= f.text_area :sender_email_content %&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="actions"&gt; &lt;%= f.submit %&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;% end %&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>C:\Rails\actuirl5\app\views\submissions\show.html.erb</strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;%= render :partial=&gt;"form_new_emailinterest", :locals=&gt;{:emailinterest=&gt;Emailinterest.new} %&gt; </code></pre>
 

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