Comments on: Breadcrumbs in Rails

By: Anu

Anu — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 21:42:45 +0000

Good point!

By: Josh Fraser

Josh Fraser — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 06:59:35 +0000

Thanks for sharing. Interesting stuff.

By: Anthony Greeb

Anthony Greeb — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 06:49:12 +0000

Worth reading "The problem with breadcrumb trails" before going all out http://derivadow.com/2010/02/18/the-problem-with-...

By: @randland

@randland — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:56:11 +0000

Rewrote breadcrumb generator to handle resources and actions via Routes.recognize_path... http://gist.github.com/448656

By: weppos

weppos — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:12:03 +0000

Sometimes, you can't rely on the URL because it doesn't contain all the necessary information.
For this reason (and to get more flexibility), I created http://github.com/weppos/breadcrumbs_on_rails.

Feel free to try it and let me know your feedback

By: @indirect

@indirect — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 07:40:14 +0000

Nearly all that code is unnecessary if you are using resources in Rails. You don't even need to parse the URL (which is kind of gross, IMHO). Something like this should do everything: http://gist.github.com/445652

By: Josh Fraser

Josh Fraser — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 06:25:16 +0000

oooh very nice. i like that a lot.

By: @mtodd

@mtodd — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 06:18:58 +0000

Thinking about it, I was kinda disappointed that there wasn't an obvious way to iterate over an array with the previous and the next elements conveniently available. Seeing the Enumerable#each_cons method, I saw that it was most like what I wanted, so I decided to hack this together: http://gist.github.com/445605 Wrapping this further there may be a way to define methods Enumerable#first? and Enumerable#last? to make it easier to add tests without requiring tracking the index, et al.

By: @mtodd

@mtodd — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 06:05:46 +0000

Just to clarify, I changed the call to Record#name to be Record#display_name and then I would define a custom method on each of the models that would show up in the breadcrumb, allowing for lots of customization and defaults. For example:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
def display_name
"%s %s" % [self.first_name, self.last_initial]
end
end

or even

class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
alias_method :display_name, :title
end

By: Josh Fraser

Josh Fraser — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 05:39:33 +0000

tried that. still no luck.