Rewrite flash in Rails with twitter bootstrap

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Prerequisite

u’v got bootstrap javascript and stylesheets in ur rails app.

Then

1.rewrite flash container in application.html.erb like this:

<div id ="flash_container" class="noPrint">
<%=render :partial => "shared/flash_messages", :locals => {:flash => flash} %>
</div>

2.add a file named _flash_messages.html.erb in views/shared,file content:

<% flash.each do |type, message|%>      
	<div data-alert="alert" class="alert <%= alert_type(type)%> fade in" >
		<a href="#" class="close" data-dismiss="alert">×</a>
		<%= message %>
	</div>
<% end %>

3.add a method in application helper

def alert_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

4.then use it in ur actions

flash[:notice]
flash[:alert]
flash[:error]
blah......