Use an image path from database as link_to

Question

I have an image being pulled from the database in a table, that I would then like to make into a link so the viewer can be taken to the full article. I have seen that in theory I could use the below,

<%= link_to image_tag('image/someimage.png') + "Some text", some_path %>

but in my case 'image/someimage.png' is

<%= image_tag coffeeshop.image_thumb_path %>

I've tried simply dropping the image tag section in, so it becomes <%= link_to image_tag('image_tag coffeeshop.image_thumb_path') + "Some text", some_path %> but this doesn't work. Is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

link_to(body, url, html_options = {})

The first argument in your link_to will be interpreted as the body of the tag, and then your url, but if you want to add more content inside the link_to you can open it and then close it, all inside will be interpreted this way:

<a href="#">
  ...
</a>

So you can try:

<%= link_to some_path do %>
  <%= image_tag coffeeshop.image_thumb_path %>
<% end %>