I'm pretty happy with the solution that I came up with. Basically, I have a helper method that reloads the flash inline, and then I have an after_filter that clear out the flash if the request is xhr. Does anyone have a simpler solution than that? Update: The solution above was written back in Rails 1.x and is no longer supported.
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