tabs and navigation menus rails

Tabs on Rails

TabsOnRails is a simple Rails plugin for creating tabs and navigation menus.
It provides helpers for generating navigation menus with a flexible interface.
Requirements

* Ruby >= 1.8.6
* Rails >= 2.2

or

* Rails 3

Warning: TabsOnRails doesn’t work with Rails 2.1 or previous versions (see this comment and this commit).
Installation
As a Gem

RubyGems is the preferred way to install TabsOnRails and the best way if you want install a stable version.

$ gem install tabs_on_rails

You might need administrator privileges on your system to install the Gem.
Rails >= 2.2

Specify the Gem dependency in your environment.rb file so that Rails will automatically check the requirement on startup.

Rails::Initializer.run do |config|

# other configurations
# ...

config.gem "tabs_on_rails"

end

Rails 3

Specify the Gem dependency in the Bundler Gemfile.

gem "tabs_on_rails"

As a Plugin

$ script/plugin install git://github.com/weppos/tabs_on_rails.git

Warning: this method is deprecated and will be removed in a future version.
Use Bundler and the :git option if you want to grab the latest version from the Git repository.
Basic Usage

In your template use the tabs_tag helper to create your tab.







The example above produces the following HTML output.

• Homepage
• Dashboard
• Account

The usage is similar to the Rails route file. You create named tabs with the syntax tab.name_of_tab. The name you use creating a tab is the same you’re going to refer to in your controller when you want to mark a tab as the current tab.

class DashboardController < ApplicationController set_tab :dashboard end Now, if the action belongs to DashboardController, the template will automatically render the following HTML code.

• Homepage
• Dashboard
• Account

Use the current_tab helper method if you need to access the value of current tab in your controller or template.

class DashboardController < ApplicationController set_tab :dashboard end # In your view
The name of current tab is .


http://www.simonecarletti.com/code/tabs_on_rails/