[Ruby] link_to or button_to external url

[Eric Hodel]

On Dec 28, 2006, at 12:30, Neil Moomey wrote:

> I can't seem to designate an external url with link_to or button_to
>
> <%= link_to :Google, :action => "http://www.google" %>
> give me:
> http://localhost:3004/pfd_applicants/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google
>
> I've read up and can't find why it's doing this.  The options
> available are :anchor, :only_path, :trailing_slash, :host, and
> :protocol but none of them seem to help.
>
> I have rails 1.16 and ruby 1.8

link_to 'Google', :only_path => false, :host => 'www.google.com'

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