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Asked: 2026-05-26T03:53:36+00:00

Is there a built-in way to determine if an asset exists without resorting to

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Is there a built-in way to determine if an asset exists without resorting to File.exists?(File.join(Rails.root, "foo", "bar", "baz")) and that looks through the asset paths.

My app goes and fetches images from a remote server on a Resque queue; until we have the image downloaded I want to serve a placeholder image. Currently I’m using File.exists… but this means hard-coding a path, which sucks, or looking through the configured asset paths. It seems like this should be there already, but I can’t find it in the docs.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Given an image in app/assets/images/lolshirts/theme/bg-header.png,

    Rails.application.assets.find_asset 'lolshirts/theme/bg-header.png'
 => #> Sprockets::StaticAsset:0x80c388ec pathname="/Users/joevandyk/projects/tanga/sites/lolshirts/app/assets/images/lolshirts/theme/bg-header.png", mtime=2011-10-07 12:34:48 -0700, digest="a63cc84aca38e2172ae25de3d837c71a">

Rails.application.assets.find_asset 'notthere.png'
 => nil
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