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equivalent8
equivalent8

Reputation: 14237

when to put images to app/asssets and when to /public/images in rails 3.1?

I still don't quite get it, where to put images in rails 3.1, in these situation:

  1. Images are processed (f.e. by paperclip or by dragonfly ) and stored in folder (not with external service like s3, ..f.e. in develompent)
  2. when I have just images, that I'll use in stylesheet (f.e. backrounds)
  3. Icons (AppStore, Facebook ...)

thanx

Upvotes: 7

Views: 1805

Answers (1)

Volodymyr Rudyi
Volodymyr Rudyi

Reputation: 648

Stylesheet images should be placed in app/assets, while files uploaded by paperclip in public/system. In case of assets , fingerprints will be created for every file, so they can be properly cached. If cached file changes, fingerprint changes too and in such way cache is invalidated.

UPDATE: To reference files in app/assets (e.g. specifying image url in css) you`ll need to use special asset pipeline ERB or SCSS helpers (like image-path and image-url for SCSS and asset_path for ERB).

Upvotes: 6

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