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Changing Current Tab in Rails

Asked 2009-11-17T21:17:45.380
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I have a list of tabs at the top of my application that I include in a general layout in application.html.erb. They look like this:

<li class="current"><%= link_to "Home", provider_path(current_user.id), :method=> "GET"%> </li>
            <li><%= link_to "Edit Profile", edit_student_path(current_user.id) %> </li>
            <li><%= link_to "Search", provider_search_path %> </li>

I want to change the selected tab to the "current" one, when I hit that page. So when I click Edit Profile and the Edit Profile page loads, the tabs should appear as follows:

<li><%= link_to "Home", provider_path(current_user.id), :method=> "GET"%> </li>
 <li class="current"><%= link_to "Edit Profile", edit_student_path(current_user.id) %> </li>
  <li><%= link_to "Search", provider_search_path %> </li>

Is there a way to do this outside of adding javascript to the page which is displayed? Or if there is what is generally best practice for doing this in the DRYest way possible.

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You could try something like:

<li class="<%= controller.controller_path == 'provider' ? 'current' : '' %>"><%= link_to "Home", provider_path(current_user.id), :method=> "GET"%> </li>
<li class="<%= controller.controller_path == 'student' ? 'current' : '' %>"><%= link_to "Edit Profile", edit_student_path(current_user.id) %> </li>
<li class="<%= controller.controller_path == 'search' ? 'current' : '' %>"><%= link_to "Search", provider_search_path %> </li>

...and just check which controller you're coming from.

answered 2009-11-17T22:38:00.970
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Take a look at TabsOnRails

answered 2011-06-23T18:37:16.107

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