How to use Galleria plugin with Rails 4 Pipeline

Question

I\'ve recently had a trouble making Galleria plugin work with Rails 4 Pipeline and it took me a while to figure out how to make it work, so I wanted to share the solution in cas

Answer 1

Thank you this was absolutely amazing and exactly what I needed (I wish I'd found this before the 18 hours of hair pulling trying to get this to freaking work)!

I'll add some more things that might be helpful to whomever:

1) I had to change to galleria.css.scss.erb, so that it would interpolate the class-loader like this: background: url(<%= asset_path "/galleria/classic-loader.gif" %>) (not sure why, but the asset_url didn't work for me)

2) Related, I also had to take the classic-map and loader images and put them in app/assets/images

3) Per Galleria, the files I moved were the min.js files, not regular .js

4) In the header of the view, I added:

5) In the script on each view to load Galleria, I modified their instructions like such:

Galleria.loadTheme("<%= asset_path "/galleria.classic.min.js" %>");