Rails link_to tag tag with styled glyphicon

Question

I am trying to use glyph icons that I have styled in my rails app.

I want to make the icon a link to another page, but can't use the standard bootstrap styling because I have customised the links for my page's style.

I keep getting a keyword class error - does anyone know why?

Thank you.

I have the following link in my view:

<li><%= link_to <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-comment"></span>, page_path('messages') %> </li>

I also have css as follows:

span.glyphicon-comment {
  vertical-align:middle;
  margin:auto;
  padding:10px;
  font-size: 2em;
  text-align: right;
  a:link {text-decoration:none; background-color:transparent; color:grey;};
  a:visited {text-decoration:none;background-color:transparent; color:grey;};
  a:hover {text-decoration:none;background-color:transparent; color:dark grey;};
  a:active {text-decoration:none;background-color:transparent; color:grey;};
}

Answer 1

You have to use " around the string, also need to call html_safe method on it.

<%= link_to "<span class=\"glyphicon glyphicon-comment\"></span>".html_safe, page_path('messages') %>

but a better and cleaner way would be

<%= link_to page_path('messages') do %>
  <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-comment"></span>
<% end %>