Best way to highlight current page in Rails 3? — apply a css class to links conditionally

Question

For the following code:

<%= link_to \"Some Page\", some_path %>

How do I apply a css class current using the

Answer 1

I tried to combine a couple of the mentioned techniques with my own needs.

def current_page(path)
  'current' if current_page?(path)
end

def create_nav_link(string, path, method)
  link_to string, path, data: { hover: string }, method: method
end

def create_nav_item(string, path, method = nil)
  content_tag :li, create_nav_link(string, path, method), class: current_page(path)
end

Basically it allows you to use it like this: create_nav_item("profile", profile_path) which will result in: