Rails - Feb 2006 - application helper and tri-state images

I''ve come up with a very hackish way of creating a tri-state image 
navbar.  I don''t like it but it works pretty well.  I would love to
know
the ''rails'' way of doing this or even just a suggestion. 
Here''s my
helper.
module ApplicationHelper

  # we use this function to create the tri-state image with rollovers
  # todo I need to use a good css trick for this and not this function
  def navigation_bar
    links = [ ''home|/store/home'',
              ''about|/store/about'',
              ''necklaces|/store/browse/necklaces'',
              ''bracelets|/store/browse/bracelets'',
              ''earrings|/store/browse/earrings'',
              ''archives|/store/archives'',
              ''journal|/journal'',
              ''customer|/store/customer'',
              ''cart|/store/display_cart'']
    navbar = String.new
    links.each do |link|
      image,action = link.split(''|'')
      if(@current_page.to_s == image)
        navbar << %Q{<img id="#{image}"
src="/images/#{image}2.gif">}
      else
        navbar << %Q{<a href="#{action}"><img
id="#{image}"
src="/images/#{image}.gif" 
onMouseOver="this.src=''/images/#{image}2.gif''" 
onMouseOut="this.src=''/images/#{image}.gif''"></a>}
      end
    end
    navbar
  end

end

charlie bowman
recentrambles.com

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