Question

I’m having a problem accessing my javascripts from certain pages in my local Ruby on Rails site.

I have jquery javascript files located in /public/javascripts
These scripts render an instagram feed that is embed in the page

When I go to a page like http://localhost:3000/users, the script loads fine; however, if I go to a particular user, http://localhost:3000/users/1, the script does not load.

I feel like I am missing some kind of fundamental routing technique.

The scripts are located in my views/layouts/application.html.erb

They are referenced like so:

<script type="text/javascript" src="javascripts/jquery-1.6.1.min.js"></script>

What am I missing? Thanks in advance for the help.

Answer 1

Use the absolute path of jquery.

<script type="text/javascript" src="/javascripts/jquery-1.6.1.min.js"></script>

Or you could include the below line in the application.js if your rails is not old enough.

//= require jquery