Acquire Asset Path from JavaScript

Question

I need to display images on an HTML5 canvas that are in the Rails asset pipeline, but I need to know the path for the asset from JavaScript. I\'m using js-routes for other parts

Answer 1

Why not add a data attribute for the path inside an element in your .erb file and then retrieve that with JQuery?

inside some_template.html.erb

<%= content_tag(:div, "", id: 'some-id', data:{path_to_asset: asset_path("some_image.png")}) %>

then in some_javascript.js

var assetPath = $("#some-id").data("pathToAsset");