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Artur Haddad
Artur Haddad

Reputation: 1529

How to fetch assets inside vendor subfolders in Rails?

I need to install a series of libs in my application, keeping them in their respective folders inside /vendor/plugins/

Example, the ckeditor library:

So that I can import into my application.scss like this:

*= require chart.min

And in my application.js like this:

//= require Chart.js

When I try to do this rails only accesses the folder /vendor/assets/plugins/ plugins, generating the error:

could not find file 'chart.min' with type 'text/css'

How do I get the project to scan all of the vendor's subfolders until find the file I'm importing?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2932

Answers (1)

max
max

Reputation: 102036

First add the /vendor/plugins directory to the assets load path:

module MyApp
  class Application < Rails::Application
    config.assets.paths << Rails.root.join("vendor", "plugins")
    # Settings in config/environments/* take precedence over those specified here.
    # Application configuration should go into files in config/initializers
    # -- all .rb files in that directory are automatically loaded.
  end
end

However adding a directory to the assets load path does not mean that Sprockets will search all the subdirectories recursively. Nor is it a very good idea to configure it to do so.

You still need to provide a complete path from /vendor/plugins.

app/assets/javascripts/application.js:

//= require ckeditor/js/Chart

app/assets/stylesheets/application.css:

*= require ckeditor/css/chart.min

Or you can just use the Rails integration gem and skip all the hassle.

Upvotes: 5

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