TabFu 0.2.0

TabFu is a Ruby on Rails plug-in designed to ease the management of a tabbed interface such as an admin panel. It allows you to programmatically create the HTML for the list-based tabs and then choose which of the tabs is the current one at the controller, action, or view level.

Example

class ApplicationController
  include TabFu
  tab :home # default tab, optional
end

class UsersController < ApplicationController
  tab :users
  
  def contact
    tab :contact, :custom_id => :two
    
    # also accepted:
    # - `tab :custom_id => :two`  # main tabs will default to :home
    # - `tab :contact; tab :custom_id => :two` # same result as current
  end
end

# layout/application.html.erb
# ...
<div id="menu">
  <% tabs do |tab| %> # id parameter is optional
    <%= tab.home "Go Home!", root_url %>
    <%= tab.about "About", "/about" %>
    <%= tab.users "Users", users_url %>
    <%= tab.contact "Contact", "/users/contact" %>
  <% end %>
</div>

<div id="menu-2">
  <% tabs('custom_id') do |tab| %>
    <%= tab.one "I am First!" %> # no URL parameter will default to '#'
    <%= tab.two "Second" %>
    <%= tab.three "Third" %>
    <%= tab.four "Last :(" %>
  <% end %>
</div>

If you then access "/users/contact", the #menu div will look like:

<div id="menu">
  <ul>
    <li class="home"><span><span><a href="/">Go Home!</a></span></span></li>
    <li class="about"><span><span><a href="/about">About</a></span></span></li>
    <li class="users"><span><span><a href="/users">Users</a></span></span></li>
    <li class="contact active"><span><span><a href="/users/contact">Contact</a></span></span></li>
  </ul>
</div>

<div id="menu-2">
  <ul id="custom_id">
    <li class="one"><span><span><a href="#">I am First!</a></span></span></li>
    <li class="two active"><span><span><a href="#">Second</a></span></span></li>
    <li class="three"><span><span><a href="#">Third</a></span></span></li>
    <li class="four"><span><span><a href="#">Last :(</a></span></span></li>
  </ul>
</div>

To Do

• [IMPLEMENTED] Lists with different ids will be treated independently. Choosing the current tab will be with a syntax similar to tab :list_id => :tab_identifier with the option to specify more than one at once.
• Customize list-item html (i.e. choose not to have <span><span> junk)
• Tests/Specs! (for now this plug-in is just pulling code out from an existing project)
• RDocs

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2008 Bodaniel Jeanes, released under the MIT license.

In other words, go wild and fork it! Please just send back any additions!