From 2239b5a54533cc14ab7abad08d306f94f62deba0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Geoff Lanotte <geofflanotte@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 18:57:31 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] add a flash helper to use the twitter style alert banners

---
 app/helpers/flash_block_helper.rb | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 app/helpers/flash_block_helper.rb

diff --git a/app/helpers/flash_block_helper.rb b/app/helpers/flash_block_helper.rb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..61a44290
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/helpers/flash_block_helper.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+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("&times;"),:class => 'close', :data => {:dismiss => 'alert'}) +
+      message
+    end)
+  end
+end