Pictures out from images folder

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Hi!!! I wanna to show in my web page a picture, but this picture I can´t move it from the folder where it is. I know that in Rails you have to have the picture in the images folder, but I wanna to know if it is possible to show a picture from another folder different.

Thanks!!

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Hi!!! I wanna to show in my web page a picture, but this picture I can´t move it from the folder where it is. I know that in Rails you have to have the picture in the images folder, but I wanna to know if it is possible to show a picture from another folder different.

public/images is the usual place to put images but anywhere within the public folder will do (since that is what your document root is). With extra configuration you can probably get your webserver to serve images from other locations too.

Fred

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Frederick Cheung wrote:

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Sure it is possible and you have many options how to reach it. The easiest way is probably to make a filesystem link from Rails image folder to your unmovable folder. Like (provided you are in your rails public/images directory)

ln -s /your/unmovable

and you can reach your images like this

image_tag 'unmovable/something.png'

cheers

Jakub