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Tallboy
Tallboy

Reputation: 13467

How to change where asset_path looks?

I'm using a CDN and I have a CNAME for static.example.com pointing towards the rails public/assets folder.

The problem is I'm using Nginx to create that subdomain, and because it's using the assets folder as it's root, assets are now stored at:

static.example.com/hi.jpg

But asset_path wants to look in static.example.com/assets/hi.jpg

I don't want to change the location of where assets are compiled or anything that physically changes how the asset pipeline currently works - I only want to specify a new 'root' prefix when an asset is called upon.

Or, I was thinking of how I could use nginx to 'link' those 2 paths above, so that when they visit /assets/hi.jpg it would actually look in /hi.jpg, although I'm not sure how to do this with Nginx.

Either solution I would be okay with.. Thanks guys.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3186

Answers (1)

CMW
CMW

Reputation: 3144

You can set the url path via config.assets.prefix and the place where assets are looked for is configured with config.assets.paths.

From the guide on configuring assets:

config.assets.paths contains the paths which are used to look for assets. Appending paths to this configuration option will cause those paths to be used in the search for assets.

config.assets.prefix defines the prefix where assets are served from. Defaults to /assets.

Upvotes: 3

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