Best way to add “current” class to nav in Rails 3

Question

I have some static pages in a navigation menu. I want to add a class like \"current\" to the item which is currently displaying.

The way I am doing so is to add tons

Answer 1

I use a simple helper like this for top level links so the /stories/my-story page highlights the /stories link

def nav_link text, url

  active = (url == request.fullpath || (url != '/' && request.fullpath[0..(url.size-1)] == url))

  "#{text}