Devise/Rails - How to remove a particular flash message? (Signed in Successfully)

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Using Devise, I would like to know if there is a way to remove a particular flash message? (Signed in Successfully).

I care about other msg in the view, so It is just for the signed in and the signed out one. Did I have to overwrite the controller or there is another way?

Thank you!

score 68 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 04 '10 at 15:17

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You just define it to an empty string in your local file. In this case you can see nothing.

answered Nov 04 '10 at 15:17

shingara

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Thanks shingara, In fact I did that, but my css still appears – benoitr Nov 04 '10 at 15:20
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I wish there was a better way to do this :) – Scott Schulthess Nov 04 '11 at 18:33
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This file typically is located at `config/locales/devise.en.yml` – philfreo Jan 05 '14 at 01:03
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This answer is wrong (the CSS still shows up) and incomplete (define what? where?). The correct answer is from benoitr. – Jul 03 '15 at 18:48
Worked for me! The container did not appear! – neoswf Jul 18 '16 at 15:26
For me, on OOTB Rails 7 I had to add .present? to my view, roughly like this <% if flash[:notice].present? %>. But I prefer this solution to the controller override one. – genkilabs Jun 16 '22 at 17:51

benoitr · Answer 2 · 2010-11-04T17:24:35.553

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Ok!

As Shingara said I define an empty string in devise.en.yml

sessions:
  signed_in: ''

and I also change a bit the following line (provided by nifty-generators):

<% flash.each do |name, msg| %>
  <%= content_tag :div, msg, :id => "flash" if msg.length > 0 %>
<% end %>

In that way, my css doesn't appear.

edited Nov 04 '10 at 17:24

answered Nov 04 '10 at 16:18

benoitr

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A slight tidy up, you could change "msg.length > 0" to "msg.present?". It will be more readable. – Joel Friedlaender Mar 14 '11 at 07:53
This file typically is located at `config/locales/devise.en.yml` – philfreo Jan 05 '14 at 01:03

score 12 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:31

Another way is if you override the Devise controller, in the create action, put this code, which deletes the flash message:

class MyDevise::SessionsController < Devise::SessionsController

  # POST /resource/sign_in
  def create
    super
    flash.delete(:notice)
  end

  # DELETE /resource/sign_out
  def destroy
    super
    flash.delete(:notice)
  end

end

this was answered in this other SO question. For a blog post on how to override the Devise controller, see my blog post

score 11 · Answer 4 · answered May 17 '12 at 17:29

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Empty string in the locale file (as suggested above) but also add the following CSS snippet to hide (instead of monkeying with your flash views)

.flash.alert:empty {
  display: none;
}

answered May 17 '12 at 17:29

Sean Schofield

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score 8 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 18 '15 at 15:21

Another flexible way to to this is to unset the notice after the action:

class SessionsController < Devise::SessionsController
  after_action :remove_notice, only: :destroy

  private

  def remove_notice
    flash[:notice] = nil
  end
end

With this solution you can add conditions to removing or not the notice.

score 3 · Answer 6 · answered Mar 17 '15 at 16:16

From my point of view I dont see the point in emptying a string translation, when you can easily modify how the controller is working. I guess this way is much more correct and satisfying.

A better answer could be to override destroy method in sessionController.

Just creates a file placed in: app/controllers/sessions_controller.rb

As you can see we comment the line creating the flash message.

class SessionsController < Devise::SessionsController 
  # DELETE /resource/sign_out
  def destroy
    signed_out = (Devise.sign_out_all_scopes ? sign_out : sign_out(resource_name))
    #set_flash_message :notice, :signed_out if signed_out && is_flashing_format?
    yield if block_given?
    respond_to_on_destroy
  end
end

You might not want to do that because you're monkey patching. If a bug fix is made then you're losing the fix. By setting something you don't care about to an empty string and making sure you don't print out empty string messages you're using the system the way it was designed. — , Jul 03 '15 at 18:53

score 3 · Answer 7 · answered May 03 '16 at 14:21

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I think that devise now understands that if you change the error message in config/locals/devise.en.yml to an empty string it will automatically ignore it. At least that's what worked with me.

answered May 03 '16 at 14:21

omarwaleed

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For me, on OOTB Rails 7 I had to add `.present?` to my view, like this `<% if flash[:notice].present? %>`. But I prefer this solution to the controller override one. – genkilabs Jun 16 '22 at 17:48

shiva kumar · Answer 8 · 2016-05-23T18:48:51.643

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You can do this, Kindly change the condition type and flash type accordingly.

flash.delete(:alert) if flash[:alert] == "You need to sign in or sign up before continuing." @drivers = params[:keyword].blank? ? [] : Driver.find(params[:keyword])

You can do it in before filter.

edited May 23 '16 at 18:48

answered May 23 '16 at 18:43

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