LinkedIn
I know there’s more than a few of you who have been using link_to for email links. No more! By using mail_to, you can create a mailto link tag to the specified email address, which is also used as the name of the link unless you specify otherwise.
An added beneift is that mail_to can accept an encoded hex or javascript parameter, thereby encoding your email addresses to prevent email harvesters. Another thing you’ll notice is that link_to and mail_to are reversed:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | # using link_to link_to "Email Jonathan", "mailto:hello@jonathansng.com" # using mail_to # note the reversal mail_to "hello@jonathansng.com", "Email Jonathan" # using mail_to with :encode => "hex" # returns <a href="mailto:%68%65%6c%6c%6f@%6a%6f%6e%61%74%68%61%6e%73%6e%67.%63%6f%6d">Email Jonathan</a> mail_to "hello@jonathansng.com", "Email Jonathan", :encode => "hex" |
