how to set active class to nav menu from twitter b

Question

I'm new to the twitter bootstrap. Using there navigation menus . I'm trying to set active class to selected menu. my menu is -

<div class="nav-collapse">
  <ul class="nav">
    <li id="home" class="active"><a href="~/Home/Index">Home</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Project</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Customer</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Staff</a></li>
    <li  id="broker"><a href="~/Home/Broker">Broker</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Sale</a></li>
  </ul>
</div>

I tried following thing after googling on this that i have to set active class on each page from menu like as--

<script>
  $(document).ready(function () {
    $('#home').addClass('active');
  });
</script>

but problem for above is that i set home menu selected by default. Then it always get selected. Is there any other way to do this ? , or which i can generalize and keep my js in layout file itself?

After executing application my menu looks -

after clicking on other menu item i get following result-

And i added following scripts on Index view and Broker view ---

<script>
  $(document).ready(function () {
    $('#home').addClass('active');
  });
</script>

<script>
  $(document).ready(function () {
    $('#broker').addClass('active');
  });
</script>

respectively.

Answer 1

<div class="nav-collapse">
                <ul class="nav">
                    <li class="home"><a href="~/Home/Index">Home</a></li>
                    <li class="Project"><a href="#">Project</a></li>
                    <li class="Customer"><a href="#">Customer</a></li>
                    <li class="Staff"><a href="#">Staff</a></li>
                    <li class="Broker"><a href="~/Home/Broker">Broker</a></li>
                    <li class="Sale"><a href="#">Sale</a></li>
                </ul>
</div>

then for each page you add this:

//home

 $(document).ready(function () {
        $('.home').addClass('active');
    });

//Project page

$(document).ready(function () {
            $('.Project').addClass('active');
        });

//Customer page

 $(document).ready(function () {
                $('.Customer').addClass('active');
            });

//staff page

 $(document).ready(function () {
                $('.Staff').addClass('active');
            });