Question

I am using erb and ideally, I would like my html to look like this:

<li class="selected"><a href="awesome.html">Look at this awesome page</a></li>

Where both the path for the link, and the class for the li are dynamically generated using an instance variable.

Thoughts?

Edit 1

If I were using something like Rails, I know I could probably do something like:

<%= link_to content_tag(:li, nil, awesome_path, :class => "selected") %>

But that would produce the opposite effect, where the <a> would be outside of the <li> and not inside where I want it.

Answer 1

That’s called a helper:

helpers do
    def li_with_a options
        '<li class="' + options[:class] + '"><a href="' + options[:url] + '">' + options[:text] + '</a></li>'
    end
end

and from erb:

<%= li_with_a :class => 'selected', :url => 'awesome.html', :text => 'Look at this text' %>