MegaMenus

DESCRIPTION:

This gem makes working with menu structures in Rails easier.

The current version creates:

a controller for editing the menu
- views associated to methods written in rjs
- a partial for rendering the menu(for example to be rendered from a menu)
- a helper to configure its working in normal mode and edit mode, selection of menu depths(levels) to be shown
- the builtin functions are (add, delete, edit, move up, move down)
a model for storing the menu with fields absolute_position and depth to improve performance when the menu is in normal mode
a generator for rails to ease the developers work for using this gem, the menu generator creates a template menu structure that the developer can customize.
uses session to identify the selected menu
possibility to render different menu depths in different places
added a publish button in order to hide or set visible menus (publish model field)

You can have multiple partials rendering different parts of the menu. Include in your partial the following line:
- <% mega_menus(name_of_the_menu_model, ‘name_of_the_menu_controller’, par, arr, parent_id) %>
- where par is the either TRUE(editor mode) or FALSE(normal mode), arr is an array containing the interval of depths to be shown(2..3 means display menus with depths 2 and 3), parent_id determines to which parent are this children related to( 5 would mean show only children whoose ancestor has id parent_id)
If you have multiple partials you should edit the rjs files in order to assure proper updating of each partial. By default only the generated partial is updated.
The menu is located in <ul id=“ul_menu_#mm.depth” class=“ul_menu_depth_#mm.depth”>
The selected menu is located in <li class=“li_menu_class_selected”>
This two id and class values can be easly changed by editing the mega_menu partial and its helper.