Own theme

Rails
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Hi All,

I have created my own theme (background) using gimp. Can I use that in
rails 3.

If so, how. As my hours of work will go down the drain.

Thank you very much.

Regards,

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On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Bhasker H. <
[email protected]> wrote:

Hi All,

I have created my own theme (background) using gimp. Can I use that in
rails 3.

If so, how. As my hours of work will go down the drain.

Sounds like an html/design question. Whatever image(s) you want to use
you
can include in your application layout or other views files. You can use
the
image_tag helper:
Layouts and Rendering in Rails — Ruby on Rails Guides.

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Hi David,

Thanks for your quick reply.

I am able to use it if I divide my theme page(png file) into header,
body,
footer and use it respectively in the respective sections. But this
approach has its own challenges, so I want to use as a single png file
(theme) for the entrie page.

Also, without lables/fields etc. rails is able to display just the theme
page.

Thanks for any help.

Regars,

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In application.html.erb I call _stylesheets and _headers.

There I use a custom.css.

So inside my custom.css I use background-color: (url:–)
This works just by itself but when I add other parts of the custom and
header it does not work.

Regards,

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On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Bhasker H.
[email protected] wrote:

So inside my custom.css I use background-color: (url:–)
This works just by itself but when I add other parts of the custom and
header it does not work.

Then this has nothing to with Rails – you should post your question to
a general HTML/CSS/web dev mailing list, after validating both markup
and stylesheet(s).

Though “background-color (url:–)” ?? that’s just obviously wrong; look
at the CSS docs for starters.

Good luck,

Hassan S. ------------------------ [email protected]
twitter: @hassan

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Solved, I missed out a “;” that;s it.

Anyway thaks.

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Hassan S. <

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On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Bhasker H. <
[email protected]> wrote:

page.

I think if you just added your image to the application layout with the
appropriate settings to make it full page, this would work. Although
hopefully the size of the image is not too big — that is why designers
tend to break images up into smaller parts.

As far as all other rendering, of fields and other rails generated data,
this should all be able to be handled by css, so if you had page
content,
fields, forms, etc. they just get layered over your main image.