Rails - Aug 2007 - How to embed a route url inside of a helper, to return a path?

I am creating custom link_to''s and I''m trying to figure out
how to
embed a path inside of my method to return a custom link.


for e.g

Let''s say I need to do this =>

"http://someapi.com/submit?key=value&key=value&url=path_to_object"

path_to_object should return something like ''www.mysite.com/path/to/
object''

I tried to do something like content_tag :a do, etc.. and I got to the
point where I got this =>

link_to_api(user)

"http://someapi.com/submit?key=value&key=value&url=user_path"

What I found out was that user_path doesn''t get evaluated into an
actual path like it does in a controller, or a view. So how would I
actually turn ''user_path'' into the proper path that routes
takes care
of? (same functionality as link_to I guess).

Thanks!


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DanielFischer.com wrote:
> I am creating custom link_to''s and I''m trying to figure
out how to
> embed a path inside of my method to return a custom link.
> 
> 
> for e.g
> 
> Let''s say I need to do this =>
> 
>
"http://someapi.com/submit?key=value&key=value&url=path_to_object"
> 
> path_to_object should return something like
''www.mysite.com/path/to/
> object''
> 
> I tried to do something like content_tag :a do, etc.. and I got to the
> point where I got this =>
> 
> link_to_api(user)
> 
>
"http://someapi.com/submit?key=value&key=value&url=user_path"
> 
> What I found out was that user_path doesn''t get evaluated into an
> actual path like it does in a controller, or a view. So how would I
> actually turn ''user_path'' into the proper path that
routes takes care
> of? (same functionality as link_to I guess).
> 
> Thanks!
Take a look at url_for.


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