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Rails for Beginners Part 9: URL Helpers and link_to Discussion

Discussion for Rails for Beginners Part 9: URL Helpers and link_to
Jaroslav Horák Jaroslav Horák

It's there an easy way to mark current page in navigation?

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Nikhil Goyal Nikhil Goyal

Hi, did you find a way to do this ?

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Jaroslav Horák Jaroslav Horák

Hi, sadly no. I have to use a gem https://github.com/comfy/active_link_to

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Brent Beer Brent Beer

Just set up and used https://github.com/comfy/active_link_to, you are awesome.

one trick that helped: setting active: :exclusive so that my Home page did not stay active when on about (or every other page)

          <%= active_link_to "Home", root_path, class: "nav-link", active: :exclusive %>
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SG SG

<%= link_to("Home", root_path, class: "nav-link #{'active' if current_page?(root_path)}") %>

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Mikhail Mikhail

Hey Chris!
<a class="navbar-brand" href="/">Navbar</a>
<%= link_to "Navbar", root_path, class: "navbar-brand" %>

with those two lines of code there should be 2 active "Navbar" buttons, those lines are interchangeabale. Somehow after you wrote them you have only 1 button active and I have 2. Is it me or you cut one of those?

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Mikhail Mikhail

Oh! I've watched for few seconds more and there is no the first line in the code. That was a bit confusing :')

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Thy Thy

You can also visit localhost:3000/rails/info/routes if you want to view the route list in the browser.

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