On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Don Kowalski <[email protected]> wrote:

> Rails newbe here:
>
> Using link_to_unless_current and on my website it displays the the menu
> item and its entire path in () ...
>
> example:
> home (/)
> about (/welcome/about)
> register (/users/register) ... and so on.
>
>
> In my application_helper:
>
> # Methods added to this helper will be available to all templates in the
> application.
> module ApplicationHelper
>
> end
>
>  def nav_link(text, controller, action = "index")
>    link_to_unless_current text , {:controller => controller, :action =>
> action}
>  end
>
>
> in my views/layout/application.html.erb
>        <table id="menu">
>          <tr> <td> <%= nav_link "Home",    "welcome" %> </td> </tr>
>          <tr> <td> <%= nav_link "About",   "welcome", "about" %></td>
> </tr>
>          <tr> <td> <%= nav_link "Profile", "welcome", "profile" %>
> </td> </tr>
>          <tr> <td> <%= nav_link "Contact", "welcome", "contact" %>
> </td> </tr>
>        </table>
>
> routes file has:
>  # You can have the root of your site routed with map.root -- just
> remember to delete public/index.html.
>   map.root :controller => "welcome" ... standard stuff ... right?
>
> so why the path in in the link?
>
> any help would be great.  thanks
>

Hi, couldn't use the helper, link_to_unless_current, directly within the
application layout?

-Conrad


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