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Raouf Tiliouine
15,192 PointsCustom flash messages with devise Gem
Hi,
I would like to change the flash message immediately after login to 'welcome back John!'. (think it has something to do with devise yml file, but I don't know how to add that user name/email variable. How could I do this?
Thanks in advance!
2 Answers
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 PointsI managed to solve this and, as promised, I described everything in a blog post. This was very educating for me. Fir the first time I looked at Devise internals and even did some overriding of its methods. Let me know if it worked for you: http://mczuchnowski.github.io/tutorials/2015/03/23/dynamic-flash-messages-in-devise/
I will remove the first answer so that people won't get confused when reading this thread in the future.
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 PointsI did some digging and the only way to do this seems to require overwriting the whole devise's sessions controller. This is old, so the code will no longer work, but it explains the idea: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6010407/devise-custom-flash-message
Raouf Tiliouine
15,192 PointsThanks I'll check it out. I'll mark you're answer as best answer if it works out. Thanks again!
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 PointsI will also check this out today for the newest version of Rails and Devise and make a blog post about it if it works. It fascinates me and I like challenges :)