Comments on: Using the rails “flash” properly. http://www.danielfischer.com/2007/09/27/using-the-rails-flash-properly/ Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Los Angeles, Technology, Geek, Science, Life Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:36:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: » Use ... http://www.danielfischer.com/2007/09/27/using-the-rails-flash-properly/#comment-21460 » Use ... Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:31:51 +0000 http://www.danielfischer.com/2007/09/27/using-the-rails-flash-properly/#comment-21460 [...] quote form daniel fischer’s blog [...] [...] quote form daniel fischer’s blog [...]

]]> By: James O'Kell... http://www.danielfischer.com/2007/09/27/using-the-rails-flash-properly/#comment-12307 James O'Kell... Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:14:08 +0000 http://www.danielfischer.com/2007/09/27/using-the-rails-flash-properly/#comment-12307 I would also like to point out that a single flash area is atypical of a real world web application. Usually you have many partials on a single page and each of them call to a different controller action. Instead of doing flash[:notice] all the time (and thus only having 1 flash point) or even looping through flash to diaply in a single flash point, instead do this: (We have a login partial on the homepage, and this in the users controller) <code> flash[:partial_name_notice] = "Invalid password." </code> (Then we have the homepage view that has a partial for login) <code> </code> You can have many, many, many different flash points on each view so the user gets the notice where they expect it. I would also like to point out that a single flash area is atypical of a real world web application. Usually you have many partials on a single page and each of them call to a different controller action.

Instead of doing flash[:notice] all the time (and thus only having 1 flash point) or even looping through flash to diaply in a single flash point, instead do this:

(We have a login partial on the homepage, and this in the users controller)

flash[:partial_name_notice] = “Invalid password.”

(Then we have the homepage view that has a partial for login)

You can have many, many, many different flash points on each view so the user gets the notice where they expect it.

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