In case if you want to display flash message immediately on render you can use flash.now to set the message:
flash.now[:notice] = 'Show me without redirect' Very easy! On Monday, August 8, 2016 at 8:19:44 PM UTC+3, Tom Prats wrote: > > Thanks for you response. That makes a lot of sense. In this case I was > using flash for notifications, which sometimes would need to be passed > immediately, and sometimes held onto for the next request. In this case I > think I'll stick with the freedom patch, but if flash and my notification > functionality diverge in the future, I'll know why. Thanks for you help! > > On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 11:31 AM DHH <da...@loudthinking.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> The key purpose of the flash is to provide a variable that survives a >> redirect. I get that there may well be special circumstances that require >> setting the flash in the same request as the response is being sent from, >> but that's a pretty uncommon use case (or at least should be). So I think >> it's actually better that this is called out on a separate line, since it's >> somewhat abnormal. If the render call had it backed in, there'd be an >> implicit endorsement that using the flash in this manner is standard >> operating procedure. >> >> But if your app does have this as a standard pattern, then all good with >> freedom patch! :D >> >> >> On Sunday, August 7, 2016 at 1:18:02 PM UTC-7, Tom Prats wrote: >>> >>> Currently you can add a flash notice to your render call like so: >>> >>> flash[:notice] = "Notice me!" >>> render :index >>> >>> Similar to how it can be passed with redirect_to, I'd like to be able to >>> pass it as an argument to render: >>> >>> render :index, notice: "Notice me!" >>> >>> I've been using a monkey patch to allow this, but if you think this is a >>> valid feature, I'd love to write a pull request. Here's the code for the >>> patch, I can't find where I got it, but I wasn't the original author: >>> >>> >>> https://github.com/tomprats/tomify/blob/master/config/initializers/flash_patch.rb >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Tom >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to rubyonrails-co...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to rubyonra...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
