Unless I am missing something...Make layouts out of your menus then do something like this
In your controllers or even your application.rb layout :select_layout
then this method at the end of your controller private def select_layout ['action_name1', 'action_name2'].include?(action_name) ? "layout1" : "layout2" end
Storing references to a menu in a DB seems wrong.
Help that helps.
No - you make a layout for the menu - how many menus do you have? Your menu should retain a consistant look across most of your controllers/actions - unless I am not understanding something. I don't understand what you mean by "the situation my menu will be in (=the number of method I'll have)" If you mean, for example, that you want the "comments" menu item to be a different color when you are performing that action then use CSS and helper methods like link_to_unless_current amongst others.
It seems like you might want to read some ofthe multiple of books this list preaches about.
def select_layout
> ['action_name1', 'action_name2'].include?(action_name) ? "layout1" > : "layout2" > endwhat does 'action_name' represent ?
action_name is the name of the action that should use layout1.