# Asset timestamping and images referred in CSS

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/asset-timestamping-and-images-referred-in-css/155657>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 15, 2008, 11:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/asset-timestamping-and-images-referred-in-css/155657 "2008-12-15T11:27:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![qertoip](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@qertoip](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/qertoip)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 11:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/asset-timestamping-and-images-referred-in-css/155657/1 "2008-12-15T11:27:37Z")

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Rails appends ?mtime to asset paths, which is nice.

But how to coupe with images referred in css? Example:

background-image: url(…/images/bg.gif);

Idea? Plugin?

Regards,  
Piotr WÅ‚odarek