#103 Site-Wide Announcements (revised)

Nov 12, 2012 | 11 minutes | Active Record, Testing, Ajax

Here I show how to add an announcement message at the top of every page in the application and allow the user to permanently hide it. This is all done test-first and even includes testing the JavaScript behavior.

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