Using turbolinks in a Rails link_to

Question

Just wondering whether there\'s a way to use turbolinks directly in a rails link_to helper, a quick bit of googling didn\'t uncover anything of note, here\'s the type of thi

Answer 1

You can use a symbol without problems to generate the following code:

 Giraffe

Just do the following:

 <%= link_to 'Giraffe', giraffe_path(@giraffe),
             :data => { :no_turbolink => true } %>

Note: :no_turbolink will become no-turbolink and the value will be converted to JSON automatically using to_json, e.g. true to "true".