Question

I’m using Rails 3 with assets pipeline enabled.

And I know images such as icons or logos should go in app/assets/images.

But where should I put images that may be a lot and big? For example images uploaded by the users, such as photos

I don’t want them to be duplicated by precompile (not sure if it does that, I don’t know how it works). And I want them to be ready to use as soon as they get uploaded.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

The image_tag wasn’t working as expected. In the documentation it says ‘By default, files are loaded from public/images’, but that wasn’t working.

The solution was to add /images to the path (with leading backslash, or it won’t work)

<%= image_tag '/images/some_dir/some_image.jpeg' %>