Rails - Apr 2006 - link_to external link

I have searched through the api several times through and can''t seem to
find this.

<%= link_to ''Help'',
 {:url => ''https://www.example.com/page?AppServeHelp''},
 {:target => "_new"} %>

but this doesn''t work as it still prepends the current
server/controller
space on the url itself.

How do I accomplish this?

Thanks

Craig

try

link_to
''Help'',''https://www.example.com/page?AppServeHelp'',{:target
=>
"_new"}

On Monday, April 24, 2006, at 8:26 AM, Craig White
wrote:
>I have searched through the api several times through and can''t
seem to
>find this.
>
><%= link_to ''Help'',
> {:url => ''https://www.example.com/page?AppServeHelp''},
> {:target => "_new"} %>
>
>but this doesn''t work as it still prepends the current
server/controller
>space on the url itself.
>
>How do I accomplish this?
>
>Thanks
>
>Craig
>
>_______________________________________________
>Rails mailing list
>Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
>http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails

_Kevin

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Hi Craig,

I''m not sure that you''d want to use link_to in this case. It
seems like the
purpose of link_to and url_for, which it''s based on, is to take
advantage of
the mappings you''ve created in routes.rb .

However, you may also want to try the following options, which I copied from
the url_for documentation

# :only_path - if true, returns the absolute URL (omitting the protocol,
host name, and port)
# :host - overrides the default (current) host if provided
# :protocol - overrides the default (current) protocol if provided

I hope this helps!
Daniel

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Subject: [Rails] link_to external link

I have searched through the api several times through and can''t seem to
find this.

<%= link_to ''Help'',
 {:url => ''https://www.example.com/page?AppServeHelp''},
 {:target => "_new"} %>

but this doesn''t work as it still prepends the current
server/controller
space on the url itself.

How do I accomplish this?

Thanks

Craig

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