Conditional Logic on link_to with a block.

[John SB]

I've got some ugly code I don't know how to improve on. I've got a
link_to tag that takes a fair amount of html as a block. I need the
href value for the link to be different depending on some logic, there
are four possible values for the href.

What I ended us with was this, and it's pretty unreadable. Any
suggestions on how to do this better?

<%= link_to (@brand.nil? ? (@store.nil? ?
(from_catalog_path(params[:id].blank? ? Category.root.id :
params[:id], product.id, product.name_url)) :
(from_store_path(@store.id, product.id))) :
(from_brand_path(@brand.id, product.id))) do -%>
...... HTML IN HERE .....
<% end %>

[Tim Shaffer]

Maybe just put the logic in the controller?

if @brand.nil?

  if @store.nil?

    @brand_link_path = from_catalog_path(params[:id].blank? ? Category.root.id : params[:id], product.id, product.name_url)

  else

    @brand_link_path = from_store_path(@store.id, product.id)

  end

else

  @brand_link_path = from_brand_path(@brand.id, product.id)

end

Then it simplifies your view:

<%= link_to(@brand_linnk_path) do -%> HTML HERE <% end %>