CODEWITHSUNDEEP
ruby-on-rails-3
tvalent2
tvalent2

Reputation: 5009

Rails 3 way to change content of element depending on current url

I have a link_to that produces <a href="#" id="login">Log in</a>.

I'd like to change that to <a href="/signup">Sign up</a> when the url is on my log in page (as opposed to my homepage).

Is there a way to do this with Rails? I know I could use JavaScript but it was pointed out to me that it would make more sense to do this on the server-side.

I tried a <% if request.url == "/login" %> but that didn't do anything.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 155

Answers (1)

ipr101
ipr101

Reputation: 24236

I think request.url will return the entire URL so it won't match '/login'. You could either parse the '/login' value from the request.url string or use request.path.

Here's a link that gives more info on getting parts of the current URL - http://programming-tut.blogspot.com/2010/06/ruby-on-rails-request-url.html

Upvotes: 2

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