Highlight tab in menu

Question

I have a menu which is a ul

Home | Calendar | Settings

I want to highlight (via a css class) the selected tab in the menu.

Some lin

Answer 1

I settled on this solution which I like a lot:

In the helper

def active_if(options)
  if params.merge(options) == params
    'nav-active'
  end
end

And in the view define what makes the route unique:

<%= link_to 'Home', root_path, class: active_if(action: 'home') %>
<%= link_to 'Aricles', articles_path, class: active_if(controller: 'articles') %>