What is the best way to return multiple tags from a Rails Helper?

Question

I want to create a hidden field and create a link in one helper and then output both to my erb.

<%= my_cool_helper \"something\", form %>

Answer 1

Using safe_join.

I typically prefer just concatenating with +, as shown in Orion Edwards's Answer, but here's another option I recently discovered.

safe_join( [
  link_to( "something", something_path ),
  form.hidden_field( "something".tableize, value: "something" )
] )

It has the advantage of explicitly listing all of the elements and the joining of those elements.

I find that with long elements, the + symbol can get lost at the end of the line. Additionally, if you're concatenating more than a few elements, I find listing them in an Array like this to be more obvious to the next reader.