Link_to helper method to include icon within a element

Question

Here's what the default scaffolding generates:

<%= link_to 'Delete', admin_user, method: :delete, data: { confirm: 'Are you sure you want to delete?' } %>

I want to create a helper method so that I can call a remove_link(admin_user) and have it behave the same way:

  def remove_link(item)    
    link_to item, method: :delete, :data { confirm: 'Esta seguro que quiere eliminar este registro?' } do
      "#{content_tag :i, nil, class: 'icon-remove-sign'}".html_safe
    end
  end

But I'm getting this error:

SyntaxError in Admin::UsersController#index

/home/sergio/Work/foo/app/helpers/application_helper.rb:11: syntax error, unexpected '{', expecting tASSOC
... item, method: :delete, :data { confirm: 'Esta seguro que qu...

Answer 1

You have a syntax error in the third argument to link_to, you can use data: foo or :data => foo, but not :data foo

link_to item, method: :delete, data: { confirm: 'Esta seguro que quiere eliminar este registro?' } do