Images directory

Rails
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I have a template. In this template i refer to images by using . I putted the images in the public/images
folder. This works only for the base url, e.g.
http://localhost:3000/category. When i make a new category like
http://localhost:3000/category/new, the images arent displayed. When i
go to the source of the page, and look to the image url it says
/images/category/image.gif. Off course, it should be just
images/image.gif. Somehow it adds category/ to the image src url. How to
prevent Rails from doing this?
Thanks in advance!

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Try making the url “/images/image.gif” (with the leading forward
slash) I think that will work, not 100% certain though.

Randy

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I had a similar problem recently and Randy is 100% correct. The forward
slash will do what you’re looking for.
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Try making the url “/images/image.gif” (with the leading forward
slash) I think that will work, not 100% certain though.

Randy

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I have a template. In this template i refer to images by using . I putted the images in the public/images
folder. This works only for the base url

Instead of qualifying the path by prepending ‘/’, might I also suggest
using the image_tag helper:

<%= image_tag("close.gif") %>

That should continue to work even if you deploy your app to a server
that adds an extra path layer.