Rails: How to use “_blank” or “_new” in Rails

Question

In HTML, if I wanted a link to open in a new window, I\'d adopt target=\"_blank\" like this:

Answer 1

you can also do target: :_blank if you prefer to use a symbol

Answer 2

I think it's like this

<%= link_to image_tag('img.png'), 'http://www.website.com', target: '_blank' %>

See http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/UrlHelper.html#method-i-link_to

Answer 3

you can remove the default action of the link in js as

$('#button-id').click(function(e){
  e.preventDefault();      
});

The preventDefault() function prevents the default action of the event

Answer 4

For anyone wondering how to achieve this when passing a block:

<%= link_to(product.link, target: '_blank') do %>