Rails Devise I18n Flash Messages with Twitter Bootstrap

Question

Hello I am new to ruby on rails and I am struggling to understand I18n\'s flash messages. I am using devise, rails 4, and twitter bootstrap.I understand that devise only use

Answer 1

I made a wiki page within the devise wiki on github for How To: Integrate I18n Flash Messages with Devise and Bootstrap

Flash Messages For the Site

First we will make a rendered view to make the code concise. Within "app/views/layouts/application.html.erb" I added <%= render 'layouts/messages' %>.

My file looks like:

  <%= render 'layouts/header' %>
  

    <%= render 'layouts/messages' %>
    <%= yield %>
    <%= render 'layouts/footer' %>
  

Next we have to make the messages file. Make a new file in "app/views/layouts/_messages.html.erb" and add:

<% flash.each do |key, value| %>
  

    ×
      

        

          <%= value %>
        
      
  
<% end %>

This will give us flash messages for the entire site.

Flash Messages For Devise

For devise you need to override the way devise handles flash messages. Create a file called devise_helper in "app/helpers/devise_helper.rb".

Inside the file you have to create a method called devise_error_messages!, which is the name of the file that tells devise how to handle flash messages.

module DeviseHelper
  def devise_error_messages!
    return '' if resource.errors.empty?

    messages = resource.errors.full_messages.map { |msg| content_tag(:li, msg) }.join
    html = <<-HTML
    
 x
      #{messages}
    
    HTML

    html.html_safe
  end
end

Next in your devise views you will have to define where you want the error messages to appear. You will need to enter <%= devise_error_messages! %> within the devise pages. An example is entering this within "app/views/devise/registrations/.new.html.erb" (The sign up page)

It should already be within the file, but you can move the code around to customize where it is shown.

CSS For Flash Messages

If you do not want to use the odd blue and yellow alerts that come default, I have set error and alert to have the same colorand success and notice to have the same color. I am using red for errors and alerts, and green for success and notice.

Within my "app/assets/stylesheets/custom.css.scss" I have:

/*flash*/
.alert-error {
    background-color: #f2dede;
    border-color: #eed3d7;
    color: #b94a48;
    text-align: left;
 }

.alert-alert {
    background-color: #f2dede;
    border-color: #eed3d7;
    color: #b94a48;
    text-align: left;
 }

.alert-success {
    background-color: #dff0d8;
    border-color: #d6e9c6;
    color: #468847;
    text-align: left;
 }

.alert-notice {
    background-color: #dff0d8;
    border-color: #d6e9c6;
    color: #468847;
    text-align: left;
 }