# Modal dialog box

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/modal-dialog-box/171813>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 9, 2009, 5:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/modal-dialog-box/171813 "2009-07-09T17:28:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![mistressjanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@mistressjanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mistressjanna)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 5:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/modal-dialog-box/171813/1 "2009-07-09T17:28:20Z")

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How, typically, do you manage, say, what would be a modal-type dialog  
box on a non-Rails application? How do you handle that type of thing  
in Rails? (I don’t want to fo off on some wild tangent in my code, but  
want to keep things as rails-like as possible. I’m thinking there must  
be a defacto standard for htis type of thing, but I am not finding it)  
-Janna B

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**Author:** ![mistressjanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@mistressjanna](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mistressjanna)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 6:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/modal-dialog-box/171813/2 "2009-07-09T18:22:07Z")

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On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 08:27 -0700, JannaB wrote:

> How, typically, do you manage, say, what would be a modal-type dialog  
> box on a non-Rails application?

lightbox, et. al.

> How do you handle that type of thing  
> in Rails?

redbox

HTH,  
Bill