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

Here's a cool way to use a link_to to include an image, and a mailto href with Text (displayed next to the image):

<%= link_to image_tag("image.png") + " some@email.com", 
                         href: "mailto:some@email.com" %>

Giving you something like this in your view (the entire image and text become an mailto href):