Working With Rails

Stickies

= Stickies

Stickies is a plugin for Ruby on Rails that provides some easy to use yet powerful features for displaying status messages. It’s a replacement for the traditional use of placing such messages in the flash.

Examples

The following line goes in your layout, where you normally render messages that are in the flash:

<%= render_stickies %>

Once that is place, you can use the helper methods from your controllers or views for adding messages to the message collection:

error_stickie("Your account has been disabled")
warning_stickie("Your account will expire in 3 days")
notice_stickie("Account activated")

• Displayed messages have a close link to remove them from the web page
• Messages default to only being displayed once (they disappear on the next page load)
• Messages can stick around until a user closes them
• You can choose to have a specific message display every so often

To display a warning that a user’s browser sucks, no more than once every 24 hours:

warning_stickie("Your browser sucks", {
  :remember => true,
  :name     => :browser_warning,
  :seen_in  => 24.hours,
})

NOTE: This description has been extracted from the Plugin README and so the formatting may need updating to make browser friendly