I am doing flash[:error] = "Hello World!" in my controller, and it shows properly in my view. However, flash[:error] is only deleted after the -second- time it is shown, which means that if I enter a wrong password, then navigate to the "lost password" page, I get a message saying "Invalid username or password" on -both- pages. What's the deal? AFAIK, Rails is supposed to delete the flash after it is rendered the first time.
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Answers by: Rich Collins | awt
Can you use ruby-debug to put some debugging out put in the code that deletes the variable to see what is happenning?
Isn't supposed to be deleted automatically by Rails? We don't delete it at all on our side, it gets deleted the second time it's shown.
Yeah I'm saying do rake rails:freeze:edge to get the source in vendor, then put a debug statement in the rails code where the assignment is being made. Unfortunately I don't have enough algorithmic knowledge to determine if in this case flash is behaving properly or not.