Rails: How to add link_to with target blank

Question

I am new to rails 3, I would like to add (:target => \"_blank\") to link_to helper below

link_to \"GOOGLE\", \'http://www.google.com\', class: \"btn btn-large b         


        

Answer 1

Why would you want to override link_to? It's already defined in Rails, just use it like this :

link_to "GOOGLE", "http://www.google.com", target: "_blank", class: "btn btn-large btn-primary"

Edit: OK, understood. I'd advise against overriding such a common method so create another one :

def link_to_blank(body, url_options = {}, html_options = {})
  link_to(body, url_options, html_options.merge(target: "_blank"))
end

It should do the trick