dpickett / tab_menu

Rails Plugin to generate tabs

TabMenu

TabMenu is an easy way to create tabs for your Rails Application. It requires Rails 3 or greater

Examples

<%- tab_menu "user_menu tabbed" do |t| -%>
  <%= t.tab "Profile", "/account" %>
  <%= t.tab "Change Settings", "/account/edit" %>
<%- end -%>

This will render:

<ul class="user_menu tabbed">
  <li class="current"><a href="/account">Profile</a></li>
  <li><a href="/account/edit">Change Settings</li>
</ul>

You can now set the current tab like so:

  <%- tab_menu "user_menu", {}, :current_tab => "profile" do |t| -%>
    <%= t.tab "Profile", "/account" %>
    <%= t.tab "Change Settings", "/account/edit" %>
  <%- end -%>

note the active class is designated for the current url and that url helpers are allowed in the second argument

Changing the Active Class

You can change the class name given to the current tab in an initializer:

TabMenu.active_class = "active"

To use tab_menu with Twitter Bootstrap, you should use “active” for this option.

TODO

• Submenus

Thanks

• Josh Goebel for identifying a hack in Rails 2.2 to resolve output buffer issues
• Ryan Angilly for reporting defects

Contribution

You are welcomed to contribute. All changes and revisions are assigned under copyright below

If you use this plugin and you’re happy with it, please recommend me on Working With Rails

MIT License

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