Help with link_to and its kin

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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 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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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

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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