rails 3: display link as button?

Question

On some non-form pages, I have a few links that would look better as a button than a hyperlink...

I thought button_to instead of link_to would work, but buton_to see

Answer 1

I recently had to do this because my form was acting differently for link_to than it was with button_to and I needed the functionality the link provided. The best solution I found does not use CSS at all but instead calls .html_safe to escape the html in the ruby code and properly display the link as a button. What you want to do is this:

<%= link_to "This is a button".html_safe, some_path, :id => "button_id", :class => "button_class" %>