# Embedding link\_to's within text fetched from database **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 4, 2006, 11:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/embedding-link-tos-within-text-fetched-from-database/62412 "2006-06-04T11:47:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![samonderous](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@samonderous](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/samonderous)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2006, 11:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/embedding-link-tos-within-text-fetched-from-database/62412/1 "2006-06-04T11:47:26Z")
Hi, I have the following problem that I can’t seem to figure out. I want to able to fetch some text from my database record in my controller, and then add two links within the text and then send that back to the view to get rendered so that the two links appear as links and when clicked on, they’d basically call the corresponding action for the link. Would anybody know how to go about doing this? How do you get a view to render the link out? Thanks and any help appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![samonderous](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@samonderous](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/samonderous)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2006, 12:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/embedding-link-tos-within-text-fetched-from-database/62412/2 "2006-06-04T12:44:14Z")
In your controller, you just take the @text from the database, copy it to a new member variable @text\_with\_links, add a new link “by hand” to that variable (@text\_with\_links += 'link") and last render @text\_with\_links instead of @text at your view. If the link was not to an action, you could use auto\_link in your view. \<%= auto\_link(“Visit [http://example.com](http://example.com)”) %\> renders as Visist [http://example.com](http://example.com) ---
**Author:** ![samonderous](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@samonderous](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/samonderous)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2006, 2:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/embedding-link-tos-within-text-fetched-from-database/62412/3 "2006-06-04T14:13:03Z")
On Sunday, June 04, 2006, at 12:44 PM, mh789 wrote: > – > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). > > * * * > > Rails mailing list > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails) You could also use an inline template render :inline=\>“\<%= @text\_from\_database %\> \<%= link\_to ‘link’, :action=\>‘action’ %\>”’ \_Kevin ---
**Author:** ![samonderous](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@samonderous](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/samonderous)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2006, 2:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/embedding-link-tos-within-text-fetched-from-database/62412/4 "2006-06-04T14:37:44Z")
On Sunday, June 04, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Guest wrote: > > You could also use an inline template > > * * * > > Rails mailing list > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails) Doing this in a view would be trivial, doing it in a model would probably be a bad idea. What exactly did you have in mind? \_Kevin ---
**Author:** ![samonderous](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@samonderous](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/samonderous)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 10:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/embedding-link-tos-within-text-fetched-from-database/62412/5 "2006-06-05T10:07:14Z")
The problem is, if adding the links is dynamically determined, then in your view, you’d need some way to know that some particular database fetched text needs links while others don’t. If you do it in the controller, then your logic just goes there and you just embed the links when need be. thanks. On 4 Jun 2006 12:34:26 -0000, Kevin O. \< ---
**Author:** ![samonderous](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@samonderous](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/samonderous)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2006, 2:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/embedding-link-tos-within-text-fetched-from-database/62412/6 "2006-06-04T14:22:50Z")
Kevin O. wrote: > On Sunday, June 04, 2006, at 12:44 PM, mh789 wrote: > > > – > > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). > > > > * * * > > > > Rails mailing list > > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails) > > You could also use an inline template > > render :inline=\>“\<%= @text\_from\_database %\> \<%= link\_to ‘link’, > :action=\>‘action’ %\>”’ > > \_Kevin Is there any way to do this outside of a controller?