On Dec 17, 9:20 pm, Frederick Cheung <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
Thanks for that Fred Added the magic and its working embarrasingly well. I think I was stuck in the cycle of coming up with increasingly complex solutions to a simple problem, perhaps its time for some coffee. Thanks again Marc --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
