Referencing rails assets without the digest?

Question

I am referencing assets in my rails app directly, for ex. background-image: url('/assets/bg.png'). But I just realized this wouldn't work in production since digested assets are served (/assets/bg-dddasd434r4tfdfs...sada.png) in production. Is my only choice to use helper methods (for ex, image-url) throughout the application or is there a more simpler solution to this?

Answer 1

This is an ancient question, but since I happened upon it with Google...

In Rails 5 there is the asset_path helper which even in the .scss files can return the proper path to a file.

Answer 2

In config/application.rb change the value of

config.assets.digest to false

Answer 3

You can try asset_path('app.js', :digest => false) or disable digest in the prodution env:

# config/environments/prodution.rb
config.assets.digest = false  

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