Question

I want to output the following with Ruby on Rails link_to and image_tag methods:

<a href="#">Lorem Ipsum <img src="/images/menu-arrow-down.gif"></a>

What would be a good way in Rails?

Answer 1

Why not just use a link to and image tag?

<%= link_to "hiii #{image_tag(yourimagepath)}", "link_path" %>

You could also try the appending done above (string + image_tag), but it will throw an error if one of those things becomes nil. Using interpolation, it will just show a blank image(or string) if it is nil.

For Rails 3, you will need to use html_safe:

<%= link_to "hiii #{image_tag(yourimagepath)}".html_safe, "link_path" %>