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Hemanth
Hemanth

Reputation: 5145

How to use the ruby variable value as "link display text" in link_to?

I trying to achieve something like as below :- 

<%= link_to "<%= user.email %>", users_path %>

So that each user's email id is to be used as a hyper link to their user profile page.

How to achieve this ? I'm using rails 3.0.1.

Thanks in Advance

Upvotes: 2

Views: 844

Answers (2)

Brett Bender
Brett Bender

Reputation: 19749

Don is close, but users_path is (i presume) the index action of a UsersController, so you don't need (and in fact shouldn't pass) user into the helper.

link_to is actually a helper method, which accepts a few arguments. The first argument is the text of the link itself (what goes in between <a> and </a>). You don't need to use the ERB syntax you are trying to use, just pass whatever text you want (user.email, or user.name, whatever).

<%= link_to user.email, user_path(user) %>

Upvotes: 4

Don Pinkster
Don Pinkster

Reputation: 366

Try the following, since you want a link to a user and not the index of all users

<%= link_to user.email, user_path(user) %>

Upvotes: 3

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