Bootstrap flash messages in Rails
After avoiding Bootstrap for so long, I’m starting to see some of the advantages that it offers. For instance, I needed to style flash messages today, and turn out, I don’t have to write any CSS for it. This is all the code I needed:
/ app/views/layouts/application.haml
= render 'shared/flash'
/ app/views/shared/_flash.haml
- flash.each do |type, message|
%div{ class: "alert #{bootstrap_flash_class(type)} fade in" }
= message
%button.close{ data: { dismiss: 'alert' } } xThen we add a simple helper method to translate the flash classes to the bootstrap flash class names:
module ApplicationHelper
def bootstrap_flash_class(flash_type)
{ success: 'alert-success',
error: 'alert-danger',
alert: 'alert-warning',
notice: 'alert-info'
}[flash_type.to_sym] || flash_type.to_s
end
endMaybe it’s not such bad idea to start new projects with Bootstrap after all.
Tags: rails