Rendering subnav for GET and POST to the same page

[sange...@gmail.com]

I have a page that needs to load the same subnav if the page is loaded with either GET or POST. I know that I can use the :method option to specify which one to look for, but I can't seem to get it to respond to both GET and POST. The closes I've gotten to was 

    primary.item :account, 'Account', accounts_path, :method => [:get, :post] do |account|

        ....

    end

which then uses POST to load that page when the Account nav item is clicked. How can I achieve this?

[Andi Schacke]

Hi

the :method param "mimics" the :method param from the rails link_to helper. It can be used to have a "rails style" delete link by passing in :method => :delete. It has nothing to do with how or which subnav element is loaded or displayed. To have control over which subnav is selected, you can either use the :auto_highlight option (which is turned on by default) which makes a subnav active if its parent url matches the current_url. Or you can use :highlights_on with a regexp to specify when a navigation item should be considered active. 

I hope I did not misunderstand your question.

Andi

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[sange...@gmail.com]

Hi Andi - thanks for the quick response. I see that I was wrong about the :method parameter - that makes sense. The issue that I'm having is that the subnav appears when the page is loaded via GET, but not when the page is loaded via POST. Here's a bit more detail about my situation.

I have the following two routes that both load the same page:

  get "accounts" => "accounts#overview"

  post "accounts" => "accounts#overview"

My navigation config is set as so:

    primary.item :account, 'Account', accounts_path do |account|

      account.item :profile, 'Profile', accounts_profile_path

      account.item :letters, 'Letters', accounts_letters_path

      account.item :payment_methods, 'Payment Methods', '/accounts/payment-methods'

      account.item :pending, 'Pending', accounts_pending_path

      account.item :cancel, 'Cancel', accounts_cancel_path, :unless => Proc.new { @account.blank? || !@account.is_cancelled? }

      account.item :refund, 'Refund', accounts_refund_path, :unless => Proc.new { @account.blank? || !@account.is_cancelled? }

    end

When I simply click on the "Account" nav item, the subnav loads properly. I also have a search that lists accounts into a table and POSTs to the Account (accounts#overview) page. The reason for this is because I need to store the account id of the selected account in a session variable. Do you have any idea why the subnav would not load when POST is used?

[Andi Schacke]

Hi Alec,

is your problem linked to this issue? https://github.com/andi/simple-navigation/issues/49

[sange...@gmail.com]

There certainly seem to be some similarities. I'll try implementing some of those workarounds and will follow up. Thanks.