Rails - Jan 2006 - Custom flash[:notice]

For the most part, my
flash[:notice] messages fall into one of two categories: either a
message stating that something happened successfully (which is colored
green), or messages showing errors (which I would like to be red).

Is it possible to set some sort of flag on these messages to choose
which color I want to show, or would I need to base it on CSS and set
the class in the text, i.e. flash[:notice] = "Error" ? Thanks!


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How about using flash[:error]?

On 1/8/06, Dylan Markow <dylan@dylanmarkow.com>
wrote:
>  For the most part, my flash[:notice] messages fall into one of two
> categories: either a message stating that something happened successfully
> (which is colored green), or messages showing errors (which I would like to
> be red).
>
>  Is it possible to set some sort of flag on these messages to choose which
> color I want to show, or would I need to base it on CSS and set the class
in
> the text, i.e. flash[:notice] = "<p
class=''red''>Error</p>" ? Thanks!
>
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Hello Dylan,

2006/1/8, Dylan Markow <dylan@dylanmarkow.com>:
>  For the most part, my flash[:notice] messages fall into one of two
> categories: either a message stating that something happened successfully
> (which is colored green), or messages showing errors (which I would like to
> be red).
>
>  Is it possible to set some sort of flag on these messages to choose which
> color I want to show, or would I need to base it on CSS and set the class
in
> the text, i.e. flash[:notice] = "<p
class=''red''>Error</p>" ? Thanks!
There''s nothing preventing you from adding more than one type of
message to the flash.  For example, the Flash Helper Plugin[1] adds up
to three types of messages to the flash:  notice, message and warning.
 These are then marked up appropriately with CSS classes while being
displayed.

Hope that helps !
--
Fran?ois Beausoleil
http://blog.teksol.info/

[1] https://opensvn.csie.org/traccgi/flash_helper_plugin/trac.cgi/

Dylan Markow <dylan@...> writes:
> Is it possible to set some sort of flag on these messages to choose
> which color I want to show, or would I need to base it on CSS and set
> the class in the text, i.e. flash[:notice] = "<p
> class=''red''>Error</p>" ? Thanks!
I generally like to add something like this to my application_helper.rb:

  def flash_div *keys
    keys.collect { |key| content_tag(:div, flash[key],
                                  :class => "flash #{key}") if
flash[key] }.join
  end

...and then this in my layouts/application.rhtml:

  <%= flash_div :warning, :notice %>

Now, if my controller puts anything into flash[:warning] or flash[:notice],
they''ll render like:

   <div class="flash warning">Warning here</div>
   <div class="flash notice">Notice here</div>

Nice and DRY, and easy to style. If I ever need some other flash key
besides :warning or :notice, I can just add an argument to the flash_div call
and I''m set.

Scott Raymond
scottraymond.net, redgreenblu.com, blinksale.com, iconbuffet.com.