How do I defined a variable link_to to an external URL

Question

On my site a user has a personal profile with a link to his personal external website. The url of the sites I store in a postgresql database under the name website

Answer 1

Here's what i did.

Let's say we have @person and he has a link (@person.link) # => www.google.com

in your helpers create something like this

def extlink(link)

 if link.include?("http://")
  puts link
 else
  link.insert(0, "http://")
  link
 end

end

And in your file you can do

<% @person.each do |p| %>

<%= link_to 'External', extlink(p.link) %>

<% end %>

Works for me