How to get Twitter-Bootstrap navigation to show active link?

Question

I\'m not understanding how Twitter Bootstrap does active links for the navigation. If I have a regular navigation like this (with ruby on rails linking):

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Answer 1

You may define a helper method in application_helper.rb

def create_link(text, path)
  class_name = current_page?(path) ? 'active' : ''

  content_tag(:li, class: class_name) do
    link_to text, path
  end
end

Now you can use like:

create_link 'xyz', any_path which would render as

  xyz

Hope it helps!