Question

image_path returns a path only (no host).

The url_for helper won’t accept a single path, so something like url_for(image_path('image.png')) wouldn’t work. While the internal url_for in ActionDispatch::Http::Url.url_for would appear to do the trick (source), there doesn’t seem to be a public interface for it.

How should I go about doing it? Ultimately, it’d be nice to have a function like image_url that works like url_for does for routes so that I could call image_url('image.png') and get the absolute URL given all of the default_url_options.

Answer 1

It would appear that as of recently, sass-rails now interprets the image_url command within a scss file in the expected manner, resolving to the final location of the image in question.