Keep a trail of request paths for your Rails application

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'backtrail'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install backtrail

In your ApplicationController add:

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  include Backtrail::BaseController
end

With that, all your get and non xhr request paths will start to be keep tracked on a trail stack. To generate links that go back on the trail of paths, use the view helper <%= backtrail %>. This will generate a link like:

<a class="backtrail" href="/[path]?trail=back">Back</a>

The [path] is the top path from the trail stack. It can be returned through the previous_path method (that is also a view helper) included with Backtrail::BaseController.

Questions or problems? Please post them on the issue tracker.

You can contribute by doing the following:

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

To test the application run bundle install and then rake test.

MIT License.