How to open a new tab on button click in Rails?

Question

I have a button which navigate user to another page. (It has to be button not link). I want to open the page in new tab (or even new window!). Do I have to use JavaScript? or is there any other way! I'll appreciate your help.

Cheers.

Answer 1

To expand on the answers suggesting using `target="_blank" in Rails...

If you're using the button_to helper, this is automatically wrapped in a form by Rails. It's the form tag that needs this attribute. To get it, pass it as a value in the hash of html options, for example:

button_to t(:translated_text), foo_path(foo.id), class: 'btn btn-primary', form: {target: '_blank'}

the class: and form: are elements of the html_options hash. The form: option is special because it tell Rails you want to pass the HTML option to the form tag, instead of the input tag of the button itself.