Coincidentally, I just finished a rails plugin that does something like this with rails and posted it a few days ago. In this case "back" is determined by a gr

Coincidentally, I just finished a rails plugin that does something like this with rails and posted it a few days ago. In this case "back" is determined by a graph of your web app you feed to the plugin. Never managed to get any feedback on it though. However a similar concept has been running on a production site of mine for years with fairly good success; I just finished turning it into a plugin last weekend http://kswope.com/2011/07/10/backstack-rails-plugin/ http://kswope.com/2011/07/10/backstack-rails-plugin/