Question

I’ve setup a flash helper:

def flash_message
  flash.each do |key, msg|
    content_tag :div, msg, :id => key, :class => 'flash'
  end
end

And I’ve put this in my application.html.erb:

<%= flash_message %>

And it’s returning content like this:

{:notice=>"Testing"}

I’m fairly new to rails so this could be an amateur mistake.

Answer 1

You’re right, it is an amateur mistake. 😉

Using .each here just iterates over the the messages and creates a div for each one. What you want is to make an array out of the divs and then concatenate them together at the end. Something like this:

def flash_message
  flash.map do |key, msg|
    content_tag :div, msg, :id => key, :class => 'flash'
  end.join
end