Comments on: Easy and flexible breadcrumbs for Rails

By: fnl

fnl — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:00:20 +0000

This is by far the cleanest and leanest implementation I have come accross so far (ok, eval is seen by many as “chaeting”, but… who cares, this is a relatively safe way of using it, especially if you make the regex sufficiently strict!). Kudos & thanx!

By: Vinay

Vinay — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 07:24:32 +0000

this is sweet! thanks a lot!

By: Blake

Blake — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:07:25 +0000

Thanks! Really useful!

By: szeryf

szeryf — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:56:41 +0000

QAS: without looking at your code I can only speculate. You probably call add_breadcrumb 'Home', '/' twice. Please check your code for that.

By: QAS

QAS — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:18:33 +0000

for some reason i get two home crumbs and then the current crumb.

ex: Home > Home > Model > 2003

Any idea why this could be happening?

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:44:28 +0000

Thanks for this good stuff! I added the eval business to the name param also just so I could throw the names of individual dynamic elements at the end of the crumb strings works great!

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 09:53:15 +0000

Thanks, I just needed this functionality and this post did!

By: szeryf

szeryf — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:07:32 +0000

Martijn: I think you take the “skinny controllers” rule too far. In my understanding, the breadcrumb is essentially a function of where you are and where you come from. And that’s what controllers deal with, that’s their responsibility.

Secondly, I don’t see how you could get the whole functionality proposed above using only helper functions.

Another things is that controllers are more easily testable than helpers and this is important to me.

By: Martijn Lafeber

Martijn Lafeber — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:54:27 +0000

To keep your controllers skinny, the breadcrumb ideally is in a helper function. So, although this is a nice solution in many ways, I prefer a breadcrumb function in my application helper. Thanks for the insights though.

By: vinay

vinay — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:56:48 +0000

Thank you… now it is working fine.

By: szeryf

szeryf — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:02:12 +0000

vinay: it’s hard to say why do you get 500 error. Could you take a look into your log file and see if there’s any exception?

I suspect that you use the method add_breadcrumb before you define it. If that’s the case make sure that “add_breadcrumb ‘Home’, ‘/’” line is under the definitions of those methods. I’m going to update the article to mention this.

By: vinay

vinay — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:48:00 +0000

Hi,

I am rails beginner. I followed same step you explained above. But
it is giving “HTTP 500 error” and it is working fine when i remove (without home link in breadcrumb)
” add_breadcrumb ‘Home’, ‘/’ ” from application controller. Can i know what is wrong in my case.

By: fornetti

fornetti — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:02:23 +0000

I do not believe this

By: A Crazy Agile Web Programmer’s Blog » Rails & Breadcrumbs

A Crazy Agile Web Programmer’s Blog » Rails & Breadcrumbs — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:03:29 +0000

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By: owens

owens — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:12:07 +0000

WELL THANKS I AM A NEW USER I REALLY WANT TO KNOW WHAT
IS ALL ABOUT BECAUSE AM INTERESTED

By: FuzzLinks.com » Easy and flexible breadcrumbs for Rails « require ‘brain’

FuzzLinks.com » Easy and flexible breadcrumbs for Rails « require ‘brain’ — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:39:16 +0000

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By: Breadcrumbs II: the Internationalization « require ‘brain’

Breadcrumbs II: the Internationalization « require ‘brain’ — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:00:22 +0000

[...] II: the Internationalization This is a quick followup to my breadcrumb solution. If your application is internationalized, I think you might be interested in the code presented [...]

By: szeryf

szeryf — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:46:33 +0000

And here's another implementation of the above idea: http://github.com/fesplugas/simplified_breadcrumbs/tree/master.

By: szeryf

szeryf — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:40:54 +0000

Well it looks that zachinglis went and created a plugin based on (or maybe only inspired by) my findings. I haven't tried it yet but it looks promising and has more features. Be sure to check it out.

By: Chris Bailey

Chris Bailey — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:43:58 +0000

This is outstanding, thanks much! I’ve implemented it in the latest site I’m working on, and it’s working like a charm. The dynamic breadcrumb creation is particularly cool and useful.