Question

I am about to code something for a Rails app of mine and didn’t want to reinvent the wheel, hence my question:

Do you guys know any Rails Plugin that would allow an application to display notification messages that could be user specific and also allow the user to mark them as “don’t show this again”?

My vision is to display a top div (like the one StackOverflow added recently), in different color with the message “title” and that would be clickable. Once clicked, it would pop up the entire message and then allow the user to mark it to prevent it to be shown again.

Is there anything like that out there? 🙂

I found so far this two plugins:

• http://github.com/jstewart/system_messages/tree/master
• http://github.com/arya/site_notifications/tree/master

But those are rather incomplete parts of my vision

— Felipe.

Answer 1

It seems like system_messages (which you linked to) mostly does what you want. The SystemMessage model has header, message, and dismissed fields.

It would take just a bit of JavaScript to show an intially hidden message field when the header is clicked. The plugin already allows dismissal of the message via JavaScript if you use Prototype.