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I'm new to all three, and I'm trying to write a simple contact form for a website. The code I have come up with is below, but I know there are some fundamental problems with it (due to my inexperience with sinatra). Any help at getting this working would be appreciated, I can't seem to figure out/find the documentation for this sort of thing.

haml code from the contact page:

%form{:name => "email", :id => "email", :action => "/contact", :method => "post", :enctype => "text/plain"}
  %fieldset
    %ol
      %li
        %label{:for => "message[name]"} Name:
        %input{:type => "text", :name => "message[name]", :class => "text"}
      %li
        %label{:for => "message[mail]"} Mail:
        %input{:type => "text", :name => "message[mail]", :class => "text"}
      %li
        %label{:for => "message[body]"} Message:
        %textarea{:name => "message[body]"}
    %input{:type => "submit", :value => "Send", :class => "button"}

And here is my code in sinatra's app.rb:

require 'rubygems'
require 'sinatra'
require 'haml'
require 'pony'

    get '/' do
        haml :index
    end 

    get '/contact' do
        haml :contact
    end

    post '/contact' do
        name = #{params[:name]}
        mail = #{params[:mail]}
        body = #{params[:body]}     
        Pony.mail(:to => '[email protected]', :from => mail, :subject => 'art inquiry from' + name, :body => body)   
    end
+6  A: 

I figured it out for any of you wondering:

haml:

%form{ :action => "", :method => "post"}
  %fieldset
    %ol
      %li
        %label{:for => "name"} Name:
        %input{:type => "text", :name => "name", :class => "text"}
      %li
        %label{:for => "mail"} email:
        %input{:type => "text", :name => "mail", :class => "text"}
      %li
        %label{:for => "body"} Message:
        %textarea{:name => "body"}
    %input{:type => "submit", :value => "Send", :class => "button"}

And the app.rb:

post '/contact' do
        name = params[:name]
        mail = params[:mail]
        body = params[:body]

        Pony.mail(:to => '[email protected]', :from => "#{mail}", :subject => "art inquiry from #{name}", :body => "#{body}")

        haml :contact
    end
dano
thanks, just what I've been looking for!
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Little error in this response about the 'for' attribute in labels:"This attribute explicitly associates the label being defined with another control. When present, the value of this attribute must be the same as the value of the id attribute of some other control in the same document. When absent, the label being defined is associated with the element's contents." — http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.9.1
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