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

Adding to Anthony's answer, this more closely resembles Rails' link_to implementation, including support for blocks and passing no parameters:

def link_to_blank(name = nil, options = nil, html_options = nil, &block)
  target_blank = {target: "_blank"}
  if block_given?
    options ||= {}
    options = options.merge(target_blank)
  else
    html_options ||= {}
    html_options = html_options.merge(target_blank)
  end
  link_to(name, options, html_options, &block)
end