Question

I have a form where I’d like to be able to input a web address, like “google.com”, into a form field, and be able to click on this link in the show view of the submitted form.

How can I accomplish this?

show.html.erb

<p>
  <strong>Website:</strong>
  <%= link_to @video.website, @video.website %>
</p>

Answer 1

Scaffolding will handle it like Jason Swett said. If you are looking to put it in a link in show just do something like this:

  <%=link_to @link.name, "http://"[e-mail]%>

If that doesn’t work you could always do:

 <a href="http://<%= @link.url%>"><%=@link.name%></a>