Rails - Nov 2009 - Displaying information from one model on all views in an application

I''ve created a model that I plan to use to store messages that I want
to be broadcast on every page of my application. I''m storing the
message text, a class name for css styling, and a start and end
timestamp that I want it to display between.

I was trying to find a way to insert these items into my
application.html.erb layout template so that I don''t have to include
something in every single view. There is also a controller set up for
the message items. Hopefully someone can help me with this, let me
know if you need any more info.

you can use a before_filter in the application controller.
in the method called by before_filter fetch the data you want from the
model and store the result in an instance variable, e.g. @message
create a partial that use this @message variable and insert it in your
application layout.

On 16 Nov, 22:19, Jamie
<james.white...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> I''ve created a model that I plan to use to store messages that I
want
> to be broadcast on every page of my application. I''m storing the
> message text, a class name for css styling, and a start and end
> timestamp that I want it to display between.
>
> I was trying to find a way to insert these items into my
> application.html.erb layout template so that I don''t have to
include
> something in every single view. There is also a controller set up for
> the message items. Hopefully someone can help me with this, let me
> know if you need any more info.

Take a look here: http://railscasts.com/episodes/103-site-wide-announcements

Darian Shimy
--
http:/www.darianshimy.com
http://twitter.com/dshimy


On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Jamie
<james.white138-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> I''ve created a model that I plan to use to store messages that I
want
> to be broadcast on every page of my application. I''m storing the
> message text, a class name for css styling, and a start and end
> timestamp that I want it to display between.
>
> I was trying to find a way to insert these items into my
> application.html.erb layout template so that I don''t have to
include
> something in every single view. There is also a controller set up for
> the message items. Hopefully someone can help me with this, let me
> know if you need any more info.
> >
>
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thanks guys, i''ll take a look

On Nov 16, 5:29 pm, Darian Shimy
<dsh...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Take a look here:http://railscasts.com/episodes/103-site-wide-announcements
>
> Darian Shimy
> --
> http:/www.darianshimy.comhttp://twitter.com/dshimy
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Jamie
<james.white...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> > I''ve created a model that I plan to use to store messages
that I want
> > to be broadcast on every page of my application. I''m storing
the
> > message text, a class name for css styling, and a start and end
> > timestamp that I want it to display between.
>
> > I was trying to find a way to insert these items into my
> > application.html.erb layout template so that I don''t have to
include
> > something in every single view. There is also a controller set up for
> > the message items. Hopefully someone can help me with this, let me
> > know if you need any more info.