Backtrail
Keep a trail of request paths for your Rails application
Installation
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'backtrail'
And then execute:
$ bundle install
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install backtrail
Usage
In your ApplicationController
add:
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
include Backtrail::BaseController
end
With that, all your get
and non xhr
request paths will start to be keep tracked on a trail stack. To generate links that go back on the trail of paths, use the view helper <%= backtrail %>
. This will generate a link like:
<a class="backtrail" href="/[path]?trail=back">Back</a>
The [path]
is the top path from the trail stack. It can be returned through the previous_path
method (that is also a view helper) included with Backtrail::BaseController
.
Contributing
Questions or problems? Please post them on the issue tracker.
You can contribute by doing the following:
- Fork it
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature
) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature'
) - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature
) - Create new Pull Request
To test the application run bundle install
and then rake test
.
License
MIT License.