Ruby on Rails displaying image with image_tag src

Question

I have an image in my app/assets/images folder and I'm in my view page trying to display an image.

<%= image_tag "NoAvatar.png" %>

When I load my page in localhost my image only shows /assets/ in its src path

<img alt="Assets" src="/assets/">

I'm not understanding why this is the issue? Am I doing something wrong? I thought this was how its supposed to link to an image in your pipeline?

Thanks!

score 7 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 11 '20 at 09:49

7

If your image is in assets, use:

<%= image_tag("entretien.jpg", width: 200) %>

edited Jun 11 '20 at 09:49

Adrian Mole

answered Jun 11 '20 at 08:57

Albert Ngodi

score 5 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:08

5

rails 3.1 n later have a new feature called 'asset pipeline', u can read it at http://guides.rubyonrails.org/asset_pipeline.html

u can access the image in the view as

= image_tag "/assets/large/icon.png"

the image 'icon.png' resides in 'large' under 'images' in 'assets'

to see how to refer the same image in css, see Rails 3.1 and Image Assets

edited May 23 '17 at 12:08

Community

answered Jun 20 '13 at 04:48

Prasad Surase

I don't understand how this is not the same thing as what I have? – hellomello Jun 20 '13 at 04:52
u have to specify the full path of the image. if not provided, it assumes that the image is in 'assets/images'. – Prasad Surase Jun 20 '13 at 04:54
Which it is, if you read my post it is in `app/assets/images/` – hellomello Jun 20 '13 at 05:08

2 Answers2