Question

Is there a way to add a class or an id to a specific flash message? I need to have some messages fade away and some persist. I would like to do this based on a html class.

Thanks for any help

Answer 1

There is nothing magical about what can put in the flash. It’s just a hash that is stuffed in the session and cleared out for you.

You could (for example) do

flash[:notice] = {:class => :urgent, :body => 'hello'}

And then in your layout

- if flash[:notice]
  %div{:class => flash[:notice][:class]}
    = flash[:notice][:body]

But there’s definitely more than one way to do this – you could just use one class when it’s flash[:notice], another for flash[:error] etc