Rails 4 - Toaster notifications rather than flash notifications

Question

I am using this library, (https://github.com/CodeSeven/toastr) and I am trying to push my Flash notifications to the javascript function Toastr has provided for me. How do I cal

Answer 1

What I'd recommend is to make a new flash type for this sort of thing and then render that as JS in your layout.

ApplicationController

def toast(type, text)
  flash[:toastr] = { type => text }
end


app/views/layouts/<your layout>.html.erb
# (or in a partial to be reused in various layouts)
# the <script> tag isn't needed if code snippet is
# included in an existing script block, of course.

<% if flash[:toastr] %>
  <script type="text/javascript">
    <% flash[:toastr].each do |type, message| %>
      toastr.<%= type %>(<%= message.inspect %>)
    <% end %>
  </script>
<% end %>

So this way you get all the standard behavior you're used to from the flash object and you get easy to understand javascript written in your views directly via erb. You may need to add an options hash to the ApplicationController#toast method so you can do a flash.now[:toastr] at times, of course. And so on... But this should get you started.