On 17 Dec 2008, at 17:58, [email protected] wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone
>
> I am a new user of Ruby and Rails, and would like some help with the
> following problem.
>
> I have created a navbar with a styled unordered list and I would like
> to apply class="current" to the tab for the current page.
>
> Currently I am using a large, cumbersome and ugly if..then block,
> rendering the class="current" into the html and link_tos with
> current_page?.
>
I would write a small helper, something like
def magic_link_to(name, options={}, html_options={})
if current_page?(options)
html_options = html_options.merge(:class => 'current')
end
link_to name, options, html_options
end
Then just use magic_link_to instead of link_to
Fred
> I am absolutely sure this is a fairly common task for many rails
> developers, so common and easy in fact, that noone even bothers
> mentioning it on the web (a quick reference to the fact that I have
> unsuccessfully googled already).
>
> Help will be rewarded with chunky bacon.
> P&P Not included
>
> Thanks
> Marc
>
> >
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