Rails - Aug 2005 - link_to_unless_current

Afternoon all,

I am working on a nav menu using the link_to_unless_current helper.  I 
am trying to differentiate between the links and non-links using CSS.  I 
found an old thread (Feb 2005, [1]) discussing the same functionality, 
but the answer seems a little hack-ish.  It would seem ideal to me to be 
able to specify two ":class =>" designations, one for when the
subject
is linked, one for when it''s not.

Thoughts?

-Jeff

[1]: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/2005-February/002647.html
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Jeff Casimir wrote:
> Afternoon all,
>
> I am working on a nav menu using the link_to_unless_current helper.  I 
> am trying to differentiate between the links and non-links using CSS.  
> I found an old thread (Feb 2005, [1]) discussing the same 
> functionality, but the answer seems a little hack-ish.  It would seem 
> ideal to me to be able to specify two ":class =>"
designations, one
> for when the subject is linked, one for when it''s not.
Jeff,

I''ve been looking at this kind of thing this evening too.

Try this (untested) helper:

  def link_to_mark_current(name, options = {}, html_options = {}, 
*parameters_for_method_reference)
    html_options[:class] = html_options[:current_class] if 
current_page?(options) && !html_options[:current_class].nil?
    html_options[:current_class] = nil;
    link_to(name, options, html_options, *parameters_for_method_reference)
  end

Example usage:

<%= link_to_mark_current(''name'',
{:controller=>''pages'',
:action=>''index''},
{:current_class=''current'',
:class=>''not_current''}) %>

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