I'm fairly new to Ruby on Rails, and I'm attempting to create some fancy CSS buttons using the "sliding doors" technique. I have it almost working, but I feel like there has to be a better way to handle the tags for a link.

The way I'm currently doing it:

 <%= link_to '<span>New car</span>', {:action => "new"}, :class=>"button" %> 

This isn't terrible, per se, but I would like to know if this is the best way to handle span tags is RoR.