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In my ruby on rails application, I have a controller hiring and in the view tree hiring controller have one page new and I add another page called viewhiring also and I have added two tabs in both hiring and new page i.e below:

<div id="nave">
  <ul id="menu">
    <li class="sub"><a href="/hiring/viewhiring">View Hiring</a>
    <li class="sub"><a href="<%= templates_path %>">Hiring</a> //new page that I call hiring
And I want  to redirect from Hiring page to 'View Hiring' page using anchor <a href="/hiring/viewhiring">View Hiring</a> but its not working.
kindly help me, waiting for reply.
Thanks. 
                What does "not working mean"? We can't possibly help you with so little description of the problem.
– user229044
                Jun 25, 2014 at 5:48
                Try using the correct format for a link - apidock.com/rails/ActionView/Helpers/UrlHelper/link_to   Don't use <a href="">
– Hristo Georgiev
                Jun 25, 2014 at 5:55
Helpers
You should read up about Rails URL helpers - you shouldn't be using <a href=""> in your view files, you can use <% link_to %> instead (as pointed out by @deepti Kakade):
<%= link_to "Hiring", templates_path %>
You really need to use all the rails helpers (there are many more than just link_to) in place of your HTML because they firstly help you keep your code DRY, but secondly ensure you're keeping up with the latest Rails developments
One of the main benefits of using a framework such as Rails is that it gives you the ability to focus on creating an amazing system, rather than worrying about small coding complications
Routes
Secondly, you have to consider your routes
#config/routes.rb
resources :hiring #-> hiring_path / domain.com/hiring/index
Rails' routing uses a resourceful structure - meaning it allows you to build a set of routes around "resources" in your application. Simply, "resources" are your controllers; but they're really your individual data records:
In this sense, you should look at which path you're using, as it will correspond directly to your routes
Use link_to, it generates the anchor tag of html, for example
<%= link_to "linktext", action_path %>
your action_path is nothing but the href.
<div id="nave">
  <ul id="menu">
   <li class="sub"> <%= link_to 'View Hiring', hiring_viewhiring_path %></li>
   <li class="sub"><%= link_to 'Hiring', templates_path %></li> //new page that I call hiring
Hope it helps .
'View Hiring'= is the name posted .
hiring_viewhiring_path = is the path
eg. welcome_index_path
 this path is in \app/views/welcome/index.html
Did you get it ?