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user3277633
user3277633

Reputation: 1923

In rails, how to add ruby syntax to a string in link_to?

I have the following link_to

= link_to 'Get Driving Directions!', 'http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=starting&daddr=ending&hl=en'

I want to replace the starting and ending with ruby syntax, location.start and location.end

I've tried 

= link_to 'Get Driving Directions!', 'http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=' + location.start+ '&daddr=' + location.end + '&hl=en'

but that does not seem to work. What is the best way to do this?

Edit: After playing around, it appears that although location.start and location.end are strings in the database, they are not when I try to add them on to other strings. In order to do so, Im must explicitly specify .to_string to both location.start and location.end

However, when I do this, the strings no longer appears on the show page. What is going on here?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 134

Answers (3)

TarunJadhwani
TarunJadhwani

Reputation: 1161

If you are getting "no implicit conversion of nil into String" error, it means that your location.start or location.end is nil. So you should add a conditional check:

- if location.start.present? & location.end.present?
   = link_to 'Get Driving Directions!', 'http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=' + location.start+ '&daddr=' + location.end + '&hl=en'
- elsif !location.start.present? & location.end.present?
   = link_to 'Get Driving Directions!', 'http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=defaultstart' + '&daddr=' + location.end + '&hl=en'
- else
   = link_to 'Get Driving Directions!', 'http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=defaultstart&daddr=defaultend&hl=en'

Where defaultstart and defaultend can be replaced by default values.

Upvotes: 1

pangpang
pangpang

Reputation: 8831

You can use to_params method.

params = {"saddr" => "starting", "daddr" => "ending", "hl" => "en"}.to_param
=> "daddr=ending&hl=en&saddr=starting"

url = 'http://maps.google.com/maps?' + params
=> "http://maps.google.com/maps?daddr=ending&hl=en&saddr=starting"

or use uri. 

require 'uri'
uri = URI.parse('http://maps.google.com/maps')
uri.query = URI.encode_www_form("saddr" => "starting", "daddr" => "ending", "hl" => "en")
#uri.query = URI.encode_www_form("saddr" => "#{location.start}", "daddr" => "#{location.end}", "hl" => "en")
=> "saddr=starting&daddr=ending&hl=en"

uri.to_s
=> "http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=starting&daddr=ending&hl=en"

Upvotes: 0

Kevin
Kevin

Reputation: 1223

You can use string interpolation:

= link_to 'Get Driving Directions!', "http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=#{location.start}&daddr=#{location.end}&hl=en"

Note that I've used " (quotes) instead of ' (single quotes) when using string interpolation otherwise it won't work.

Upvotes: 0

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