Jeremy Luebke wrote:
I have this code to create a link
<b>Employee:</b> <%= link_to({@employee.first_name, @employee.last_name}, :controller => 'employees', :action => 'show', :id => @employee.id) %>
It created a link with the anchor text of "FirstLast". How do I put a space in between the two so it looks like "First Last"?
Do one of the following things.
# Add a full_name method to your Employee model # Add a helper to render the full name
I prefer the first option...
class Employee # ... etc
def full_name first_name + ' ' last_name end end
Then you get... @employee.full_name in your code.
<%= link_to( @employee.full_name, :controller => ... ) %>
The helper route?
# add to a helper file that your view can access def full_name(employee) employee.first_name + ' ' + employee.last_name end
<%= link_to( full_name(@employee), :controller => ... ) %>
Either of those should work for you. I prefer to see something like this in the model.
Cheers, Robby
