How to display a Rails flash notice upon redirect?

Question

I have the following code in a Rails controller:

flash.now[:notice] = \'Successfully checked in\'
redirect_to check_in_path

Then in the /check_

Answer 1

I had the same problem, and your question solved mine, because I had forgotten to include in the /check_in view:

<%= notice %>

In the controller, just a single line:

redirect_to check_in_path, :notice => "Successfully checked in"