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Tree-Based Navigation (revised)

#162 Tree-Based Navigation (revised)

Dec 01, 2012 | 10 minutes | Active Record, Views, Plugins
If your Rails app is content-heavy, consider organizing it in a tree menu structure. Here I show how to add top-level tabs, nested links in a side bar, and breadcrumbs to go up the hierarchy.
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teleservices 6 months ago

Could you post the CSS for the menus? Or add to show notes?

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Milovan Zogovic 6 months ago

And if you use fragment caching, you should highlight current page in menu using javascript.

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Daniel Fischer 6 months ago

Or you can use pure CSS to highlight current page based on nested classes.

E.g, body.products > nav.item

Highlight nav.item.products when the body is also products.

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Tilo 6 months ago

I would also recommend the mongoid-ancestry gem for Mongoid based Rails apps.

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Aaron Cruz 5 months ago

I thought simple_format might be new... then I found that it was added 8 years ago :P

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arnlen 5 months ago

Thanks for this episode.

Is there a technical reason for chosing the "Ancestry" gem rather than the "Awesome nested set" gem ? The second one seems to be more popular for few months no ?

I'm afraid that, if I start building my app with Ancestry, it could be deprecated in few weeks. :/

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