Links to images keep breaking

ptremblett · July 5, 2006, 1:46am

Hi,

I have a catalog that has images in it. The images are stored in
public/images/…

When I open the catalog via the catalog controller I get this url:

for the images and they display correctly.

When I link to the catalog from another controller and view I get this:

If I attempt to put and image in to a view, I get this url:

To display the images I am using this code: and the url stored in image_s is: ‘images/sow/sow.jpg’

Any suggestions on how to sort this out, would be most welcome.

Regards,

Paul

ptremblett · July 5, 2006, 1:58am

fyi, this has nothing to do with rails, but with the use of relative
vs absolute URLs and the browser.

since you are using a relative path to the image, your browser is
attempting to create the absolute path based on the URL of the
document.

so if you follow a URL such as: http://www.mysite.com/catalog

and there is an image tag in that document such as

your browser will actually assume the image’s absolute URL is

so you will want to use a “/” at the beginning of your images src path

to indicate to the browser that the images directory starts from the
root

instead of

hope this helps.

ptremblett · July 5, 2006, 3:26am

Thanks Chris, that cleared that one up for me.

Regards,

Paul