Add a class to anchor with li class already "current"

Question

I have been Trying to figure this out for some time now. I have a navigation where the list item gets a class of "active" when on that page. I need to also give the anchor of those list items each a unique class. So my code is:

Application_helper

def link_to_with_current_class(name, options)
  if current_page?(options)
    content_tag :li, link_to(h(name), options), :class => "current"
  else
    content_tag :li, link_to(h(name), options)
  end   
end

Navigation

<ul id="nav">
      <%= link_to_with_current_class "work", home_path %>
      <%= link_to_with_current_class "about", about_path %>
      <%= link_to_with_current_class "contact", contact_path %>
    </ul> 

This Generates

<ul id="nav">
      <li class="current"><a href="/">work</a></li>
      <li><a href="/about">about</a></li>
      <li><a href="/contact">contact</a></li>
    </ul>

I need it to generate

<ul id="nav">
      <li class="current"><a **class="work"** href="/">work</a></li>
      <li><a **class="about"** href="/about">about</a></li>
      <li><a **class="contact"** href="/contact">contact</a></li>
    </ul>

I have tried this many ways but everything i try just breaks it. Any help on this issue would be much appreceatied.

Answer 1

This looks like it might work:

def link_to_with_current_class(name, options)
  if current_page?(options)
    content_tag :li, link_to(h(name), options, :class => name), :class => "current"
  else
    content_tag :li, link_to(h(name), options, :class => name)
  end   
end