Ruby on Rails <%= %> within a <%= link_to %>

Question

I'm new with Ruby on Rails. I'm following a guide using haml. I don't like haml so I've skipped using that. The problem is that I'm trying to have my <h2><%= forumthread.title %></h2> link to the forumthread_path.

With haml its set to be: %h2= link_to forumthread.title, forumthread_path

How can I achieve the same result without haml?

Thanks a lot in advance!

Answer 1

I think you just want this:

<h2><%= link_to forumthread.title, forumthread_path(forumthread) %></h2>

Which will generate the same thing as:

<h2><a href="<%= forumthread_path(forumthread) %>"><%= forumthread.title %></a></h2>

See the link_to documentation , the first argument is the 'title' for the link, and the second is the path for the link.