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

According to the answer by Skilldrick, I'll change it to the following:

def nav_link(*args, &block)
  is_active = current_page?(args[0]) || current_page?(args[1])
  class_name = is_active ? 'active' : nil

  content_tag(:li, class: class_name) do
    link_to *args, &block
  end
end

to make it much more useful.