# very odd... all links show href in parentheses **URL:** \ **Category:** rubyonrails-talk\ **Created:** [July 26, 2011, 4:15pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/very-odd-all-links-show-href-in-parentheses/60062 "2011-07-26T16:15:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RailinAndWailin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a88e57/32.png) [@RailinAndWailin](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/RailinAndWailin)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 4:15pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/very-odd-all-links-show-href-in-parentheses/60062/1 "2011-07-26T16:15:19Z")
using 3.1.0.rc5 (though same thing happened on rc4), asset pipeline is loaded with blueprint css (I just dumped it all into a sub-directory and loaded it in the manifest). All of my show something like (href)… so for \woot it renders woot (/my/page)… Anybody know WTH? Its gotta have something to do with blueprint, right? I thought it may be that “button as icons” plugin, though I deleted that out and restarted the server (thinking that sprockets does some caching or something) and nada. ---
**Author:** ![11155](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/d26b3c/32.png) [@11155](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/11155)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 6:52pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/very-odd-all-links-show-href-in-parentheses/60062/2 "2011-07-26T18:52:42Z")
Wojtek Augustynski wrote in post #1013139: > using 3.1.0.rc5 (though same thing happened on rc4), asset pipeline is loaded with blueprint css (I just dumped it all into a sub-directory and loaded it in the manifest). All of my show something like \ (href)... so for \woot\ it renders woot (/my/page).... Did you mean.... \woot\ or did you really have \woot\ ---
**Author:** ![Jatin1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Jatin1](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Jatin1)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 7:06pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/very-odd-all-links-show-href-in-parentheses/60062/3 "2011-07-26T19:06:52Z")
Comment the part where you include the application.css in your application.html.erb. I had the same problem, as I was also using blueprint-css. Hope it helps. Cheers Jatin ---
**Author:** ![RailinAndWailin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a88e57/32.png) [@RailinAndWailin](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/RailinAndWailin)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 7:11pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/very-odd-all-links-show-href-in-parentheses/60062/4 "2011-07-26T19:11:45Z")
Yeah…typo on my part (links are naturally auto-generated and fine)… Its deffinetly blueprint.css… I moved it out to vendor/assets/stylesheets though I’m at a loss on how to “require” it… I thought sprockets has that in its load path (according to [http://ryanbigg.com/guides/asset\_pipeline.html](http://ryanbigg.com/guides/asset_pipeline.html)) though it doesn’t seem to be picking up anything there… (though my links are fine without blueprint there 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RailinAndWailin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a88e57/32.png) [@RailinAndWailin](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/RailinAndWailin)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 7:41pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/very-odd-all-links-show-href-in-parentheses/60062/5 "2011-07-26T19:41:41Z")
Wah, wah, wah, wah… Apperently its a bug with the print.css: [http://agilewarrior.wordpress.com/2011/07/10/rails3-1-link-problem-with-strange-hrefs/](http://agilewarrior.wordpress.com/2011/07/10/rails3-1-link-problem-with-strange-hrefs/) [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6146755/rails-3-1-link-to-weird-issue](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6146755/rails-3-1-link-to-weird-issue) … huh… oh well. I’m still a little puzzled as to the sprockets load path dealie… I would think that anything in app/assets/\*\* is supposed to be there IF it requires processing (.coffee, .scss, .erb). Though I couldn’t find any resources out there on how to manage the manifest files to load the static asset files in lib/assets and vendor/assets.