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A simple menubar

Jul 20, 2009

Recently I have been trying to prototype an application and have needed a way to set the navigation bar during the initial development. So, here is a simple menubar I use while I am building apps.

module EightSquareStudio::MenuBarBuilder 
  protected 
  def self.controller_list(skip_routes=[])
    list = ActionController::Routing.possible_controllers 
    skip_routes.concat(%w( rails/info rails_info application)).each do |item|
      list.delete(item)
    end      
    return list
  end
end

module ApplicationHelper 
  def menubar_builder(controller, *skip_routes, &block)       
    result = []
    block ||= lambda do |c|
      link_to_unless(controller.controller_name == c, c.singularize, {:controller => c}) do |name|
        link_to(name, {:controller => c}, {:class => 'current'})
      end
    end
    EightSquareStudio::MenuBarBuilder.controller_list(skip_routes).each do |c|
      result << block.call(c)
    end
    return "<div class='tab'>#{result.join("</div><div class='tab'>")}</div>" 
  end
end

If I get a chance I will wrap it into a plugin. If you have any comments or suggestions. Please email me mail at eightsquarestudio dot com

Posted by Thomas Cowell

Tags: rails

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