# How to show the images

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-show-the-images/146550>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 22, 2008, 8:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-show-the-images/146550 "2008-08-22T08:54:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![lostwarrior](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@lostwarrior](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lostwarrior)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 8:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-show-the-images/146550/1 "2008-08-22T08:54:34Z")

</div>

I am storing the images in /public/snapshots.

for showing the images i have used image\_tag  
but in my image\_tag if i am going to write as  
\<%= image\_tag image.filename,:alt =\>image.filename,:size=\>‘320x244’%\>

but the image location is going as /images/1.jpg

i want to show the images in my snapshots directory.Please help

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![lostwarrior](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@lostwarrior](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/lostwarrior)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 9:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-show-the-images/146550/2 "2008-08-22T09:00:53Z")

</div>

instead of using image.filename, you could try  
[http://yourserver](http://yourserver):port/snapshots/ followed by image.filename

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Lost W.  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> ## i want to show the images in my snapshots directory.Please help
> 
> Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/).
> 
> >

–  
Zhao