DOCTYPE declaration:

Rails
1

I am playing around with the Agile Rails development book again and
thought to see what effect, if any, placing a doctype declaration
at the top of an rhtml file would have. When I insert any of the
three standard forms of such declaration at the top of
app/views/store.rhtml the product image disappears when the web
page is redisplayed. The error logged in log/development.log is:

ActionController::RoutingError (Recognition failed for
“/images/product01”):
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.11.2/lib/action_control
ler/routing.rb:469:in `recognition_failed’

As I have very limited experience with css and xml and even less
with Ruby or Rails I would appreciate it very much if someone here
could explain to me what is happening. The three forms that I have
tried are:

and

Regards,

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2

Without answering your question, I will point out that a valid doctype
must
have the namespace url for the browsers to apply it. That’s been my
experience with IE at least. Unless you are coding strict xhtml, use the
xhtml transitional doctype.

For more on DOCTYPEs read A List Aparts Intro:

HTH,

Bob S.