# Bug in @flash deprecation? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [January 22, 2007, 2:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bug-in-flash-deprecation/82926 "2007-01-22T14:42:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jon\_Evans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@Jon\_Evans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jon_Evans)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 2:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bug-in-flash-deprecation/82926/1 "2007-01-22T14:42:53Z")
Hi, I’m getting a warning about @flash since updating to Rails 1.2.1, but as far as I can tell I’m not using @flash. Warning is: DEPRECATION WARNING: @flash is deprecated! Call flash.[] instead of @flash.[]. Args: [:error] See [http://www.rubyonrails.org/deprecation](http://www.rubyonrails.org/deprecation) for details. (called from \_run\_rhtml\_47app47views47shared47\_flash46rhtml at /Users/evansj/rails/config/…/app/views/shared/\_flash.rhtml:1) plus another identical message for arg :notice at \_flash.rhtml:4 \_flash.rhtml just contains this: \<% if flash[:error] -%\> \<%= flash[:error]%\> \<% end -%\> \<% if flash[:notice] -%\> \<%= flash[:notice] %\> \<% end -%\> A grep for @flash in my project finds nothing (performed from the project root, so includes searching the plugins). Any ideas? Jon ---
**Author:** ![Jon\_Evans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@Jon\_Evans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jon_Evans)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 9:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bug-in-flash-deprecation/82926/2 "2007-01-22T21:15:46Z")
Jon, I had the same thing, I think I have isolated the problem and what I found is that if you have a partial called \_flash.rhtml and put one reference to flash (f.e. \<%= flash[:notice] %\>) in there you get this warning. Everything works though and YOU know you don’t have @flash in there, so I wouldn’t worry about it too much. I did file a ticket though … Tom Jon Evans wrote: > DEPRECATION WARNING: @flash is deprecated! Call flash.[] instead of > @flash.[]. Args: [:error] See [Ruby on Rails — A web-app framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.](http://www.rubyonrails.org/deprecation) > for details. (called from > \_run\_rhtml\_47app47views47shared47\_flash46rhtml at > /Users/evansj/rails/config/…/app/views/shared/\_flash.rhtml:1) ---
**Author:** ![Jon\_Evans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@Jon\_Evans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jon_Evans)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 3:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bug-in-flash-deprecation/82926/3 "2007-01-30T03:36:35Z")
I just wanted to say your not the only ones with this issue. Its not a big deal, but a bit annoying… On Jan 22, 3:15 pm, Tom De grunt [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![Jon\_Evans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@Jon\_Evans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jon_Evans)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 2:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/bug-in-flash-deprecation/82926/4 "2007-01-23T14:25:22Z")
Hi Tom, On Jan 22, 8:15 pm, Tom De grunt [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I had the same thing, I think I have isolated the problem and what I > found is that if you have a partial called \_flash.rhtml and put one > reference to flash (f.e. \<%= flash[:notice] %\>) in there you get this > warning. > > Everything works though and YOU know you don’t have @flash in there, so > I wouldn’t worry about it too much. I did file a ticket though … Thanks, I found your ticket ([http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/7303](http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/7303)). There’s a comment there that says you can avoid the warning by using self.flash[:notice] in the view code. That seems to fix it. Jon