link_to image_tag with inner text or html in rails

Question

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

Lorem Ipsum 

        

Answer 1

I cannot seem to figure out how to add a comment to @corroded's answer. However, if you are using Rails 3, his answer will not work as expected. It might not be immediately obvious how to fix this, at least it wasn't for me. I knew I needed to add html_safe, but put it in the wrong place. In retrospect, it was obvious, but I thought I would include it here for others like me who make the "rookie" mistake.

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

be careful though, if you are using a user assignable variable for "hiii" you need to sanitize it first.

<%= link_to (h(my_model.some_string) + image_tag(yourimagepath)).html_safe,
            "link_path" %>

Note that there is no issue with my_model.some_string or yourimagepath being nil because both h() and image_tag() return strings when passed nil.