Question

With Rails, when i want to use an image in a view, i have to use the tag:

image_tag("myimage.png", ...etc)

in my html.erb. That fine. The result is that a ?1234321323423 is put after the name of the image in the src of the html tag.

if i try to put a regular <img src="xxx.jpg"></img>, the picture is not found!!

My problem is i use a jQuery plugin for a carousel that try to load images from the js source. Since the ?12334234434 is not put at the end of the src, the images dont load.

How can i bypass this issue?

Is there a way to tell Rails to load theses images without the trailing ?12342523343?

Thanks for your precious help.

Answer 1

You don’t have to use image_tag, but you do have to use the correct path.

Chances are very good that your URI looks something like mysite.com/controller/:id/action, so by using xxx.jpg, your browser will be looking for mysite.com/controller/:id/xxx.jpg.

Try using /images/xxx.jpg.