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alik
alik

Reputation: 3870

setting a link_to with default link label/title

I have a model named product. What i wanted to be able to do was write "product.link" in my view to generate a "link_to product.title, product". I know I can't define the "link" method in the Product.rb file (because link_to does not work there), and i don't want to write "link_to product.title, product" every time i need to create a link to the product.

I was wondering if anyone could suggest the ideal way to go about having a minimal simple way of generating links to my products.

I was also wondering if there was a way in rails to set the default label field to show when i write "link_to product" instead of what it shows now: "#<Product:0x105093f20>"

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1049

Answers (1)

Douglas F Shearer
Douglas F Shearer

Reputation: 26528

Add a helper method which does the appropriate thing:

# products_helper.rb
def product_link(product)
  # Change these to taste
  link_to product.name, product_path(product)
end

Now in your view you can call the following in your view:

product_link product

As for your question about # appearing in the links, this is the link_to helper calling to_s on the object for the html portion of the link. Use a helper as above to define the default text.

Upvotes: 2

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