redirect_to flash

rubyonrails-talk
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I am trying to understand why redirect_to only accepts :notice and :alert

https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/ead93c5be5b0f1945b7d0302f1aae4685ee3f2fb/actionpack/lib/action_controller/metal/flash.rb#L12

Is there any reason I may be missing to not allow something like :success like this:

redirect_to suppliers_path, :success => 'Supplier was successfully created.' }

- Noel

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I believe those two are just the most common.

Look at the rest of the code, though. It looks like you can specify other flash values like so:

redirect_to suppliers_path, :flash => { :success => ‘Supplier was successfully created.’ }

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Thanks Tim, I didn't get that from the code.

When I used redirect_to I was expecting    redirect_to suppliers_path, :<whatever> would produce flash[:<whatever>]

At least this is a good workaround for me.

- Noel