{"id":719,"date":"2012-08-05T01:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T01:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.keenertech.com\/?p=719"},"modified":"2012-08-05T01:55:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T01:55:00","slug":"active-breadcrumbs-gem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/?p=719","title":{"rendered":"Active Breadcrumbs Gem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/yellow_brick_road.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-720\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now available &#8211; the <strong>active_breadcrumbs<\/strong> gem. It&#8217;s a light-weight utility gem for creating breadcrumbs for Ruby\/Rails websites, a standard navigational aid for websites. Now available for downloading at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rubygems.org\/gems\/active_breadcrumbs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">RubyGems.org<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/dkeener\/active_breadcrumbs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">GitHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This gem makes it easy to generate breadcrumb trails in a Rails application. The emphasis is on &#8220;structural&#8221; breadcrumbs, where a breadcrumb trail reflects the logical structure of a web site (as opposed to a &#8220;dynamic&#8221; trail, which reflects where the user has been &#8211; for which I humbbly suggest the user take advantage of the browser&#8217;s <em>Back<\/em> button). For more information, see the documentation on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/dkeener\/active_breadcrumbs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">GitHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now available &#8211; the active_breadcrumbs gem. It&#8217;s a light-weight utility gem for creating breadcrumbs for Ruby\/Rails websites, a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[173],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ruby-gem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}