Rails image broken link

Question

I\'m trying to link to an image in rails and its not working. I can link to assets/file.css as well as assets/file.js but assets/file.jpg doesnt work.

I tried a fresh ra

Answer 1

Ok so that's an expected behavior, you have to use Rails helpers:

 <%= image_tag "file.jpg" %>

Your css files should be .erb. Within it, use:

.class { background-image: url(<%= asset_path 'image.png' %>) }

Reference is para 2.2.1 here.

Answer 2

I just checked my code and my CSS looks like this:

background-image:url(/assets/pinstripes.jpg);

with the image uploaded to app/assets/images, of course. This looks like what you're using, but I can't tell for sure.