Rails - Mar 2007 - Nested List Tag Helper

I''ve taken a useful snippet for creating lists from the blog below and
turned it into something that can create a nested list from an array
of arrays.  Thought I''d share it since some of you might find it
useful and I also wanted to know if anybody can improve it (in general
and also add the ability to use the "cycle helper" by passing it into
the helper).

Inspiration:
http://termos.vemod.net/list-helper-for-rails


Here''s the code:


def html_list(type, elements, options = {})
  items = elements.map  do |element|
    if element.is_a?(Array)
      element = html_list(type, element, options)
    else
      content_tag("li", element)
    end
  end
  content_tag(type, items, options)
end

def ul(*args)
  html_list("ul", *args)
end

def ol(*args)
  html_list("ol", *args)
end

This uses recursion so you can pass it an array of arrays.

So, this:
<%= ul ["first", "first", ["second",
["third", "third", "third"],
"second", "second", ["third", "third",
"third", ["fourth", "fourth",
"fourth"]]]] %>

Becomes this (properly nested):

<ol>
  <li>first</li>
  <li>first</li>
  <ol>
    <li>third</li>

    <ol>
      <li>second</li>
      <li>second</li>
      <li>second</li>
    </ol>

    <li>third</li>

    <li>third</li>

    <ol>
      <li>second</li>
      <li>second</li>
      <li>second</li>
    </ol>

  </ol>
</ol>

The writeup:
http://blog.labratz.net/articles/2007/3/23/back-from-the-abyss-a-helper-to-create-nested-lists

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