Question

I’m not understanding how Twitter Bootstrap does active links for the navigation. If I have a regular navigation like this (with ruby on rails linking):

<ul class="nav">
  <li class="active"> <a href="/link">Link</a> </li>
  <li class=""> <a href="/link">Link</a> </li>
  <li class=""> <a href="/link">Link</a> </li>        
</ul>

How do I keep it active based on the link clicked?

Answer 1

Just made an answer on the very same question here
Twitter Bootstrap Pills with Rails 3.2.2

<ul class="nav">
  <li class="<%= 'active' if params[:controller] == 'controller1' %>"> <a href="/link">Link</a> </li>
  <li class="<%= 'active' if params[:controller] == 'controller2' %>"> <a href="/link">Link</a> </li>
  <li class="<%= 'active' if params[:controller] == 'controller3' %>"> <a href="/link">Link</a> </li>        
</ul>