Dynamic Dropdown Menu

Extension for creating client controllable dropdown menus.

Status

supports 3 levels of dropdown/popout

MENU 1
  SUBMENU 1
    item1
    SUBMENU 1
      item1
    item3
  item1
  item2

INSTALL

• install this extension in the usual way
• rake db:migrate
• add css to your theme extension css files to theme a block such as this:

<ul> <li class="headlink"> <a href="/">Home</a> </li> <li class="headlink"> <a href="/arbitrary">Arbitrary</a> <ul> <li><a href="/weird_stuff">Weird Stuff</a></li> <li><a href="/more_wierd">More Weird Stuff</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="headlink"> <a href="/oddness">ODDNESS</a> <ul> <li class="under_headlink"> <a href="/oddness/various">various</a> <ul> <li><a href="/oddness/various/1">3rd level Deep</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/oddness/random">random</a></li> <li><a href="/oddness/things">things</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul>

• place your menu in your layout using the following helper code:

  <%= dynamic_dropdown_menu %>

• TODO: go to the admin and start creating menus

• WORKAROUND: open script/console and create the menus manually.

  Menu.create :link_text => "blah", :url => "/blah", :position => 12, :visible => true, :parent_id => 3

• TODO: add :visible to the menus.find call, so that the implied functionality actually exists:

Given a valid, saved Menu instance with 'visible == true' When I go to a page with a dynamic_dropdown_menu() call Then the menu item should display Given a valid saved Menu instance with 'visible == false' When I go to a page with a dynamic_dropdown_menu() call Then the menu item should not display