Image Tag without extension

rubyonrails-talk
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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

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 Biedenharn http://agileconsultingllc.com Rob@AgileConsultingLLC.com