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

Here's what I did:

I created a ViewsHelper and included in ApplicationController:

include ViewsHelper

Inside ViewsHelper I created a simple method like this:

def page_state(path)
  current_page?(path) ? 'active' : ''
end

In my view I do this:

<%= link_to 'Foobars', foobar_path %>