# Problem with showing image **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [September 10, 2008, 12:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-showing-image/148200 "2008-09-10T12:14:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jicksta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/7ba0ec/32.png) [@jicksta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jicksta)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 12:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-showing-image/148200/1 "2008-09-10T12:14:42Z")
Hi I’m using \<%= image\_tag(“nameofimage.png”) %\> to load image in my page and picture is there and it loads very rarely but most of the time (almost all the time) it doesn’t. What can be the cause for it. Also I tried ![](https://www.ruby-forum.com/public/images/nameofimage.png) stille can’t get the picture though the picture is situated under “///nameofimage.png”. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![jicksta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/7ba0ec/32.png) [@jicksta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jicksta)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 12:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-showing-image/148200/2 "2008-09-10T12:26:01Z")
On 10 Sep 2008, at 11:14, Jay P. wrote: > Hi I’m using \<%= image\_tag(“nameofimage.png”) %\> to load image in my > page and picture is there and it loads very rarely but most of the > time > (almost all the time) it doesn’t. What can be the cause for it. Also I > tried ![](https://www.ruby-forum.com/public/images/nameofimage.png) stille can’t get the > picture though the picture is situated under “///nameofimage.png”. Thanks the leading /public isn’t necessary. Your web server’s Documentroot should be public (not the project) folder. mongrel, script/server etc… should do that by themselves Fred ---
**Author:** ![jicksta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/7ba0ec/32.png) [@jicksta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jicksta)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 1:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-showing-image/148200/3 "2008-09-10T13:50:54Z")
thanks for the reply man but doesn’t help. ---
**Author:** ![jicksta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/7ba0ec/32.png) [@jicksta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jicksta)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 1:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-showing-image/148200/4 "2008-09-10T13:56:25Z")
On 10 Sep 2008, at 12:50, Jay P. wrote: > thanks for the reply man but doesn’t help. Firebug and things like that allow you to server responses for all of your requests. I suggest you look at that to find out why your images aren’t loading. Fred ---
**Author:** ![jicksta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/7ba0ec/32.png) [@jicksta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jicksta)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 2:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-showing-image/148200/5 "2008-09-10T14:59:55Z")
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 3:14 AM, Jay P. \< removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid\> wrote: > Hi I’m using \<%= image\_tag(“nameofimage.png”) %\> to load image in my > page and picture is there and it loads very rarely but most of the time > (almost all the time) it doesn’t. What can be the cause for it. Also I > tried ![](https://www.ruby-forum.com/public/images/nameofimage.png) stille can’t get the > picture though the picture is situated under “///nameofimage.png”. Thanks Hi, what version of Rails are you using? What does the following produce in script/console: helper.image\_tag( ‘nameofimage.png’ ) -Conrad ---
**Author:** ![jicksta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/7ba0ec/32.png) [@jicksta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jicksta)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 1:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-showing-image/148200/6 "2008-09-11T01:58:54Z")
Conrad T. wrote: > Hi, what version of Rails are you using? What does the following > produce in > script/console: > > helper.image\_tag( ‘nameofimage.png’ ) > > -Conrad Thank Conrad for the help, I tried using script/console and it says its Rails 2.0.2 but doesn’t go well, it ends up with the message: irb.bat is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. ---
**Author:** ![jicksta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/7ba0ec/32.png) [@jicksta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jicksta)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 1:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-showing-image/148200/7 "2008-09-11T01:56:00Z")
Frederick C. wrote: > On 10 Sep 2008, at 12:50, Jay P. wrote: > > > thanks for the reply man but doesn’t help. > > Firebug and things like that allow you to server responses for all of > your requests. I suggest you look at that to find out why your images > aren’t loading. > > Fred Thanks again Fred for the reply, I don’t know where can I find that firebug as I don’t use firefox, however, I tried it, and suprisingly it worked fine, so the problem is only with IE, its faster in firefox as well. So, what can be a solution for IE. Somewhere I read that in IE there will be yellow triangle in the bottom left if there are any errors but couldn’t find any, so may be there’s no error but still the page doesn’t load. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![jicksta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/7ba0ec/32.png) [@jicksta](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jicksta)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 8:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-showing-image/148200/8 "2008-09-11T08:54:26Z")
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Jay P. \< removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid\> wrote: > Thank Conrad for the help, I tried using script/console and it says its > Rails 2.0.2 but doesn’t go well, it ends up with the message: irb.bat is > not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or > batch file. Hi Jay, if you’re running on Windows, then try executing the command in the root folder of your Rails application ruby.exe script\console Note: Please make sure that the parent directory of ruby.exe is in your path. Good luck, -Conrad