Okay, another pretty obvious beginner question

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So this is another obvious question, but if you're referring to something using Erb, such as <%=@page.title%>, and you need to put that into a link_to tag, how would you do it?

I have: <%= link_to(post.title, :action=>'show', :id=>post%>

But that doesn't seem to work. Thoughts?

Thanks,

Ron

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This should work:

<%= link_to(@page.title, :action=>‘show’, :id=>post%>

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That did wind up working. Thanks, Henry!

Ron

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Ron, I know you have your question answered, but in the future if you provide more specifics than “doesn’t seem to work,” you can get better help. If it’s breaking, a stack trace might be in order.

Also, a little more context is useful. For example, telling us you set @page in your controller or something like that.

I think that will make your feedback from the community quicker and more accurate.

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Hi s.ross,

That's a very good point. I should have been more clear. My controller has for this action the following:

def list     @post_pages, @posts = paginate :posts, :per_page => 10     @pages=Page.find(:all)     @events=Event.find(:all) end

I wound up modifying Henry's suggestion to: <%= link_to post.title, :action=>'show', :id=>post%>

There was just a problem with the parenthesis.

Ron

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Great, glad to help.

Henry