RubyOnRails Breadcrumb Helper

Posted at May 12, 2009

I needed a stupid simple breadcrumb helper that was fast and didn’t require crazy configuration. I don’t need a high level of control, so I figured, lets just take the requested path and link the segments, and here we have it.

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def breadcrumbs(separator = ' > ', options = {})
(crumbs, previous) = [], []
request.path.split('/').each do |part|
previous << part
crumbs << link_to(part, previous.join('/'), options)
end
crumbs.join(separator)
end

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