link_to helper shows a tags as string

[merongivian]

I've read rails helpers are not completely integrated, is this something that is not yet implemented?

[joeldrapper]

That's right, we haven't adapted the link_to helper yet. I’m not sure if it’s worth doing since you can just write something like this.

You could always define your own adapter

def link_to(...)
  raw helpers.link_to(...)
end

Or use url_for directly which will allow you to pass the content of the link as a block and also allow to use normal Phlex attributes on the link.

def link_to(something, **attributes, &block)
  a(**attributes, href: helpers.url_for(something), &block)
end

Now you can use it like this.

link_to(@article, class: "bla") { "Hello" }

The advantage of being able to pass a block is you can continue to use Phlex to put HTML inside the link.

link_to @article do
  h1 { "Inside link" }
end

I expect we will ship an adapted link_to helper with this interface. ^^

[joeldrapper]

@merongivian 👋 hey, coming back to your question about link_to, phlex-rails now supports all Rails helpers via adapters which you can include as needed. To use link_to, just include Phlex::Rails::Helpers::LinkTo and it should work as expected.