Flash messages / Bootstrap

gistfile1.rb

# app/helpers/application_helper.rb
def twitterized_type(type)
  case type
    when :alert
      "alert-block"
    when :error
      "alert-error"
    when :notice
      "alert-info"
    when :success
      "alert-success"
    else
      type.to_s
  end
end

# app/views/layouts/application.html.haml
=render :partial => "shared/flash_messages", :locals => {:flash => flash}

# app/views/shared/_flash_messages.html/haml
- flash.each do |type, message|
  %div.alert-message.fade.in{ "data-alert" => "alert", :class => twitterized_type(type) }
    %a.close{:href => "#"} ×
    %p
      = message

Would be nice to see this in ERb… :)
Thanks anyway! ;)

Given you twitterized_type method always returns a string representation of the input, you could use type.to_s instead.

From post: http://ruby.zigzo.com/2011/10/02/flash-messages-twitters-bootstrap-css-framework/

Just missing a good 'ol spec test 👇

require 'spec_helper'

describe ApplicationHelper do
  context "instance methods" do
    describe "#twitterized_type" do
      let(:twitter_flashes) do
        {
          :alert => 'alert-block',
          :error => 'alert-error',
          :notice => 'alert-info',
          :success => 'alert-success'
        }
      end

      it "returns the twitter-bootstrap version for each flash type" do
        twitter_flashes.each do |flash_type, twitter_class|
          helper.twitterized_type(flash_type).should == twitter_class
        end
      end
    end
  end
end