Question

I have a file called myjavascript.js.erb in my assets path. This is where I put all my project related javascript etc.

As I understand it, rails runs this file through the erb interpreter first and then loads the resulting JS file.

I have the following line in my file

console.log( "<%= root_path %>" );

I was hoping that this would log the root path of the project but unfortunately it seems to only get me

"/path to rails project omitted/app/assets/javascripts"

Surely this should point to the root of my project? Am I doing something wrong?

Answer 1

You can use

Rails.root

To get to the root path in Rails.