I’ve been using this little snippet quite often for our Rails applications, so I thought I’d share it. It uses minimal code to output the flash[:notice] and flash[:error] messages in colors correlating to their purpose and then fades them away.

Here’s the CSS used followed by the Erb code I use in my layout:

Last Friday a bunch of friends and I were out celebrating my birthday at the historical Grammer’s in Over The Rhine. Grammer’s was having a celebration of the 75th aniversary of the Repeal of Prohibition that night which coincidentally shares the date of December 5th with me. We’ve got several photos taken of us that are in a gallery on Metromix-Cincinnati. Don’t ask me why I always have ridiculous looks on my face in pictures, I can’t help it.