If you look at the code generated by the scaffold, you'll notice that flash[:notice] in methods and corresponding views. When you change
It might also be worth mentioning that flash by default has the special property of making the hash available to the next action only (e.g. flash[:notice]=‘Item was moved to the trash’). After that it is removed from the session. Check out flash.keep, flash.now, and flash.discard in the API docs.
Regards,
Dave