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user1539233

Reputation: 11

ruby rails assets path for 3rd party

I'm attempting to port from Rails 2.3.8 to Rails 3.2.6. My app currently uses 3rd party css/js/images which are placed in public/<3rdparty>/<subdir>/../..

In layout/application.html.erb, I used absolute path to retrieve them; eg <%= stylesheet_link_tag "/dojoroot/dojo/resources/dojo.css" %> and <%= javascript_include_tag "/dojoroot/dojo/dojo.js" %>

For Rails 3.2.6, the assets are expected to be in app/assets or lib/assets. However, moving the 3rd party from public to app/assets doesn't work because the tag are looking for the assets under their respective type. For example, <%= stylesheet_link_tag "dojoroot/dojo/resources/dojo.css" %> will look at app/assets/stylesheet/dojoroot/dojo/resources/dojo.csc and likewise the javascripts will look under apps/assets/javascripts/dojoroot/dojo/dojo.js. Breaking the 3rd party into 3 subdirs of stylesheets/javascripts/images seem rather wasteful and timeconsuming.

If I pass the absolute path to the tag; eg <%= javascript_include_tag "/dojoroot/dojo/dojo.js" %> Rails won't find it in app/assets/dojoroot.

Is there a configuration where I can have Rails look for the assets without injecting "stylesheets", "javascripts" into the path?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 440

Answers (1)

Sully
Sully

Reputation: 14943

Just name the file, no path

<%= stylesheet_link_tag "dojo" %>

If you want to reference more than one, you can do

<%= stylesheet_link_tag "dojo", "custom" %>

Also, make sure in app/assets/javascript/application.js that you have

//= require jquery
//= require jquery_ujs
//= require_tree .

And <%= javascript_include_tag(:application) %> in your application.html.erb

read '2.1.2 Using index files' in http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/asset_pipeline.html

Upvotes: 1

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