Breadcrumbs in Ruby on Rails

Question

I\'m slightly insecure about my breadcrumb solution. Names and links are defined in each controller action:

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Answer 1

Breadcrumbs menu are a recurrent pattern in most Rails applications. To solve this issue, I created and released a plugin called breadcrumbs_on_rails.

You define your breadcrumbs in the controller

class MyController

  add_breadcrumb "home", root_path
  add_breadcrumb "my", my_path

  def index
    # ...

    add_breadcrumb "index", index_path
  end

end

and you render them in your view.

  
  



  <%= render_breadcrumbs %>

Even if you don't want to use a plugin, I encourage you to give it a look. It's open source and you can grab some idea for your app.