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Posted by Raouf Tiliouine
Raouf Tiliouine
15,192 Points

SweetAlert with Rails

Hi,

Just wondering how I could go about using SweetAlert with a destroy button in a Rails scaffold.

Thanks in advance!

2 Answers

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points
Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

Add this to your Gemfile:

gem 'sweet-alert'
gem 'sweet-alert-confirm'

Run bundle install.

Add this to your app/assets/javascripts/application.js:

//= require sweet-alert
//= require sweet-alert-confirm

and add this to your app./assets/stylesheets/application.css:

*= require sweet-alert

I just tried it, works like a charm. Some custom options are given here: https://github.com/mois3x/sweet-alert-rails-confirm

Raouf Tiliouine
Raouf Tiliouine
15,192 Points
Raouf Tiliouine
Raouf Tiliouine
15,192 Points

Hey Maciej,

Thanks for the answer. I actually got it to work another way. I added this coffee script to one of my scaffolds' javascript file (its was a student scaffold, so the path is /app/assets/javascript/students.coffee)

$.rails.allowAction = (link) ->
  return true unless link.attr('data-confirm')
  $.rails.showConfirmDialog(link) # look below for implementations
  false # always stops the action since code runs asynchronously

$.rails.confirmed = (link) ->
  link.removeAttr('data-confirm')
  link.trigger('click.rails')

$.rails.showConfirmDialog = (link) ->
    swal {
      title: 'Are you sure?'
      text: 'This cannot be undone!'
      type: 'warning'
      showCancelButton: true
      confirmButtonColor: '#DD6B55'
      confirmButtonText: 'Delete'
      cancelButtonText: 'Cancel'
      closeOnConfirm: false
      closeOnCancel: false
    }, (isConfirm) ->
      if isConfirm
        swal 'Deleted!', 'Student has been deleted!.', 'success', $.rails.confirmed link
      else
        swal 'Cancelled', 'Student delete has been cancelled', 'error'
      return

And that also worked!

Sources:

http://www.pjmccormick.com/nicer-rails-confirm-dialogs-and-not-just-delete-methods http://lesseverything.com/blog/archives/2012/07/18/customizing-confirmation-dialog-in-rails/

I did find that gem you mentioned, but I just didn't bother looking too much into it, as I tried to understand how I could change the default behaviour of the button. This answer is just for 'education purposes' for anyone looking at this thread, and wants to know more about this.