Michael Satterwhite wrote:
When coding a views/.rhtml file, where do the various directories fall in relation to my app. For example, if I have a file in public/images of "image1.jpg", I need to code a "<img src=......>" for it (I think, I won't be shocked if someone says "in rails we do it this way). *IF* I'm coding the <img> tag, where is the file ... what directory path do I put in so I can find image1.jpg?
As far as your webserver is concerned, the root of your Rails app is the 'public' directory. So if you have an image called image1.jpg in public/images, you can get to it using
<img src="/images/image1.jpg" />
Incidentally, Rails has a built-in image tag helper that assumes that images are stored in the /images directory, so in this case you could use
<%= image_tag("image1.jpg") %>
Chris