Here is a simple way of outputting the first message in the flash (because I didn’t want it to output both flash[:error] and flash[:notice] at the same time).
# in the controller flash[:notice] = "Thanks for signing up!"
.. and…
# in the view <% flash.detect do |type, text| %> <div id="flash" class="<%= type.to_s %>"> <%= text %> </div> <% end %>
The detect method will return the first key/value pair of the flash where the block doesn’t return false. However, that’s not what we’re using it for – we’re using it to make sure we only get the first element.
Hope this is useful.
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Tags: Flash, Ruby on Rails, Views
