Simple Navigation is a ruby library for creating navigations (with multiple levels) for your Rails, Sinatra or Padrino applications. It runs with all ruby versions (including ruby 2.x).

For the complete documentation, take a look at the project's wiki.

You can consult the project's RDoc on RubyDoc.info.

If you need to generate the RDoc files locally, check out the repository and simply call the rake rdoc in the project's folder.

Demo source code is available on Github.

Don't hesitate to come talk on the project's group.

Fork, fix, then send a Pull Request.

To run the test suite locally against all supported frameworks:

bundle install
bin/appraisal bundle install
bin/appraisal rspec
bin/appraisal rspec ./spec/requests/users_spec.rb

To target the test suite against one framework:

bin/appraisal rails_8.1 rspec
bin/appraisal rails_8.1 rspec ./spec/requests/users_spec.rb

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