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Michael P.
Michael P.

Reputation: 1413

Rails: Unable to link to images in assets/images

What I'm attempting to accomplish here seems straightforward enough but has been a bit of a hassle. I'm just trying to access images that are within the assets/images directory via my browser. So, let's say I have a file whose location is

assets/images/my_file.png

You'd think one of the following would work:

http://localhost:3000/assets/images/my_file.png
http://localhost:3000/assets/my_file.png

But neither does.

Is there something about the asset pipeline that I'm misunderstanding here?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 32

Answers (2)

Shubham Abrol
Shubham Abrol

Reputation: 623

In rails 3 and 4, you just get rid of the 'images' part of the path. So an image that lives in /assets/images/my_file.png will actually be accessible in a get request at this url -/assets/my_file.png

Because the assets/images folder gets generated along with a new rails 4 app, this is the convention that they probably want you to follow. I think that's where image_tag will look for it, but I haven't tested that yet.

Upvotes: 1

sansarp
sansarp

Reputation: 1466

Use this link:

localhost:3000/assets/my_file.png

Moreover,check whether you have used <%=asset_path('my_file.png')%> in your view or not. Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 1

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