Rails: How to use "_blank" or "_new" in Rails

Question

In HTML, if I wanted a link to open in a new window, I'd adopt target="_blank" like this:

<a href="http://www.website.com/" target="_blank"><img src="/img.png" /></a>

How do I add the "_blank" to rails? Here's the code I so far for the link (but it currently opens in the same tab/window):

<%= link_to image_tag("img.png"), 'http://www.website.com/' %>

Answer 1

I think it's like this

<%= link_to image_tag('img.png'), 'http://www.website.com', target: '_blank' %>

See http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/UrlHelper.html#method-i-link_to

Answer 2

For anyone wondering how to achieve this when passing a block:

<%= link_to(product.link, target: '_blank') do %>