Add Twitter Bootstap icons to Ruby on Rails "link_to()"

The easiest way is to add the bootstrap classes to the link:

<%= link_to "linkname", link_destination_path, class: "btn btn-primary" %>

Here are all of the standard bootstrap options you have for buttons: http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/base-css.html#buttons

... and the documentation for link_to: http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/UrlHelper.html#method-i-link_to

Hi Philipp Antar,

I can add classes to the link_to, however i would like to add one of the icons that bootstrap comes with, <i class="icon-search"></i>

any ideas? i shall have a look on the documentation link you gave

thanks

Darn it, I somehow read "buttons" instead of "icons". In that case, I would use a CSS :before pseudo class, read about it here. But it really depends on your needs. You could also set up some if...else statements with ERB-tags.

Hey Philipp Antar!

Try the image_tag in the link_to.

<%= link_to image_tag( path_to_image ), link_destination %>