# Newbe question link\_to\_unless\_current **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [April 4, 2010, 12:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbe-question-link-to-unless-current/186297 "2010-04-04T00:51:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dkowalski](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c89c15/32.png) [@dkowalski](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dkowalski)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 12:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbe-question-link-to-unless-current/186297/1 "2010-04-04T00:51:38Z")
Rails newbe here: Using link\_to\_unless\_current and on my website it displays the the menu item and its entire path in () … example: home (/) about (/welcome/about) register (/users/register) … and so on. In my application\_helper: # Methods added to this helper will be available to all templates in the application. module ApplicationHelper end def nav\_link(text, controller, action = “index”) link\_to\_unless\_current text , {:controller =\> controller, :action =\> action} end in my views/layout/application.html.erb | \<%= nav\_link “Home”, “welcome” %\> | | \<%= nav\_link “About”, “welcome”, “about” %\> | | \<%= nav\_link "Profile", "welcome", "profile" %\> | | \<%= nav\_link "Contact", "welcome", "contact" %\> | routes file has: # You can have the root of your site routed with map.root – just remember to delete public/index.html. map.root :controller =\> “welcome” … standard stuff … right? so why the path in in the link? any help would be great. thanks ---
**Author:** ![dkowalski](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c89c15/32.png) [@dkowalski](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dkowalski)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 1:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbe-question-link-to-unless-current/186297/2 "2010-04-04T01:39:33Z")
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Don K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > action} > \<%= nav\_link “Contact”, “welcome”, “contact” %\> > any help would be great. thanks Hi, couldn’t use the helper, link\_to\_unless\_current, directly within the application layout? -Conrad ---
**Author:** ![dkowalski](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c89c15/32.png) [@dkowalski](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dkowalski)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 10:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbe-question-link-to-unless-current/186297/3 "2010-04-04T10:08:11Z")
On 3 April 2010 23:51, Don K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Rails newbe here: > > Using link\_to\_unless\_current and on my website it displays the the menu > item and its entire path in () … > > example: > home (/) > about (/welcome/about) > register (/users/register) … and so on. Are you sure you have not got some sort of debug or plugin enabled that is adding this? I seem to remember a similar issue a little time ago that turned out to be such an issue. Colin ---
**Author:** ![dkowalski](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c89c15/32.png) [@dkowalski](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dkowalski)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 9:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbe-question-link-to-unless-current/186297/4 "2010-04-04T21:39:15Z")
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Don K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > register (/users/register) … and so on. > > > 6.8 Can you tried things without an IDE? -Conrad ---
**Author:** ![dkowalski](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c89c15/32.png) [@dkowalski](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dkowalski)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 9:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbe-question-link-to-unless-current/186297/5 "2010-04-04T21:22:11Z")
Colin L. wrote: > On 3 April 2010 23:51, Don K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > Rails newbe here: > > > > Using link\_to\_unless\_current and on my website it displays the the menu > > item and its entire path in () … > > > > example: > > home (/) > > about (/welcome/about) > > register (/users/register) … and so on. > > Are you sure you have not got some sort of debug or plugin enabled > that is adding this? I seem to remember a similar issue a little time > ago that turned out to be such an issue. Colin I’ve tried running in production mode …also with different browsers to insure I wasn’t running some sort of debug mode Ive also looked through the IDE to see if there is some type of settings … Im using netbeans 6.8 ---
**Author:** ![dkowalski](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c89c15/32.png) [@dkowalski](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dkowalski)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 10:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbe-question-link-to-unless-current/186297/6 "2010-04-04T22:14:07Z")
> Can you tried things without an IDE? one of the first things I tried I’m using the bluebprint css plugin which I’ve used before without issue. I’ve looked through the css’s and actually don’t find any reference to the \ tag. ---
**Author:** ![dkowalski](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c89c15/32.png) [@dkowalski](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dkowalski)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 10:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbe-question-link-to-unless-current/186297/7 "2010-04-04T22:25:20Z")
Don K. wrote: > > Can you tried things without an IDE? > > one of the first things I tried > > I’m using the bluebprint css plugin which I’ve used before without > issue. I’ve looked through the css’s and actually don’t find any > reference to the \ tag. I spoke to soon … blueprint css has three style sheets printing, screen and windows explorer (because MS is special or something…) anyway… in the print css I found: * * * a:link:after, a:visited:after {content:" (" attr(href) “)”;font-size:90%;} * * * I commented out the print css and Im golden now. Thanks for your help.