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

A variant to Eric Boehs solution (the most robust one IMHO), if you are linking directly to an object of the class (i.e. you don't show the index), with an added application helper:

def booking_link
 Booking.find(8)
end

You can use the following in the view (the dd is used in the context of zurb foundation)

<%= content_tag :dd, link_to(t('hints.book'), booking_link), class: active_class?(booking_path) %>-