Support opening url in a new browser tab

[shouichi]

• What would you like to be able to do? Can you provide some examples?

By using Field::Url we can display URLs as links. In some cases, it would be convenient to open links in new browser tabs.

• How could we go about implementing that?

Though the implementation would be straightforward, we may want to add rel="noopener" or rel="noreferrer.

https://docs.rubocop.org/rubocop-rails/cops_rails.html#railslinktoblank

• Can you think of other approaches to the problem?

No.

[nickcharlton]

It's not something we currently support. I wondered if we'd exposed enough of the HTML options to do it, but apparently not. content_tag accepts a hash of options, so you could do similar things too. It'd be nice to be able to do this on all fields, I'd think, if you or someone was able to open a PR to do so.

You could do something like this, but it'd mean overriding the partials in your project:

# dashboard
ATTRIBUTE_TYPES = {
  image_url: Field::Url.with_options(target: "_blank"),
}

# field partial
<%= content_tag :a, href: field.data, target: field.options[:target] do %>
  <%= field.data %>
<% end %>