add a flash helper to use the twitter style alert banners

app/helpers/flash_block_helper.rb

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+module FlashBlockHelper
+  def flash_block
+    output = ''
+    flash.each do |type, message|
+      output += flash_container(type, message)
+    end
+
+    raw(output)
+  end
+
+  def flash_container(type, message)
+    raw(content_tag(:div, :class => "alert alert-#{type}") do
+      content_tag(:a, raw("×"),:class => 'close', :data => {:dismiss => 'alert'}) +
+      message
+    end)
+  end
+end