Rails: using link_to to make a link without href

Question

How can I use the link_to helper to make a link without an href attribute? I want to make a link exclusively for a javascript action, I don't want it reloading the page or anything.

When I omit the url parameter, clicking the link reloads the page. Ditto for providing nil in place of the url.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12081156/rails-using-link-to-to-make-a-link-without-href

Answer 1

I use this approach:

= link_to('Click me', 'javascript:;', :id => :foo)

Its basically a Javascript no-op