How to use link_to for an external reference?

rubyonrails-talk
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Suppose I wish to have the following link embedded in one of my views.

<p><a href="http://www.rubyonrails.org" target="_blank">Ruby on Rails</

</p>

How can I use the 'link_to' method to generate an external link in an .erb file? I have tried various options, but keep getting routing errors.

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<%= link_to 'Ruby on Rails', 'http://www.rubyonrails.org', :target => '_blank' %>

-philip

3

Thanks Philip, that syntax had eluded me. So simple.