Image Tag without extension

Rails
#1

I’ve got a Rails action that generates images from a DB, and it works
just fine. The url is like property/pictures/234234?n=1. It spits out
the image just fine.

However when I put this URL in an image_tag, it works but spits out
lots of messages about no file extensions and then adds a .png to the
end. Lucky, the .png doesn’t break the action. Is there any way to
force rails to allow no extension on an image URL?

Thanks,

Andrew

#2

Looks to be your best bet, as there are no options on image_tag to
ignore
extensions.

Jason

#3

On Oct 31, 2007, at 10:08 AM, Andrew S. wrote:

Thanks,

Andrew

If you have frozen Rails into vendor/rails, then just change the code:

vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/asset_tag_helper.rb

   def image_path(source)
     #         unless (source.split("/").last || source).include?

(".") || source.blank?
# ActiveSupport::Deprecation.warn(
# "You’ve called image_path with a source that
doesn’t include an extension. " +
# "In Rails 2.0, that will not result in .png
automatically being appended. " +
# “So you should call image_path(’#{source}.png’)
instead”, caller
# )
# end

     compute_public_path(source, 'images')
   end

If you don’t want to do that, then you’ll have to wait for Rails 2.0.

-Rob

Rob B. http://agileconsultingllc.com
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