Two link Questions

Rails
1

I want a user to be able to submit a link to an outside website. If it
is an article titled say “Lakers lose to Denver.” from the New York
Times, I want to create a link to the article, but have the title of the
button be the name of the article.

Also I want to include the source website, but have it not be a button.
If the user submits a link that says
www.nyt.com/sports/basketball/32445, I want this to be shorted
automatically to www.nyt.com

2

I have the information stored in a table called articles. The title is
under “title” and the url under “url”

I can use the auto_link method with url, for example:
<%= auto_link @article.url %>

I want the button to say the title field, but link to the url field.
I thought it might be something like <%= auto_link ‘title’, ‘url’ %>
But I guess I need to write some kind of helper method, which is where I
am confused.

3

Just <%= link_to title, url %> greetings, mike

2009/5/26, Sean S. [email protected]:

am confused.

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4

If I try this: <%= link_to(@article.title, @article.url) %>
I almost get it. Say the title is “google” and the url is
www.google.com; I get a button that says google, but it links to
localhost:articles/1/www.google.com, not www.google.com