On Apr 13, 2013, at 7:24 AM, deepak wrote: > Originally posted here: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15986969/where-to-put-plugin-images-in-rails-application > > We use handful of plugins in our Rails application(Rails 3.2.1). As we > already know that we should keep all app images app/assets/images folder and > css in app/assets/stylesheets. This is what we follow. > > However some plugins use images and keep them in parallel to CSS file.(images > and CSS in same folder/level) > > So my question is: (We use Asset Pipeline) > > • Is it a good practice to keep images of plugin in parallel to CSS > file? (I am hoping it's good thing) > • If not, then developer has to change the image paths in entire css > file (if putting plugin images inapp/assets/images), Which I think is not > helpful for future in case you plan to upgrade those plugins. > Thanks. > >
You might want to put these in the app/vendor/plugin_name/assets folder tree, so you can keep them separate from your application's own code. If these stylesheets are written with "awareness" of a folder hierarchy, like maybe with ../images/icon.png style references to images, then you may have trouble with the asset pipeline. I just ran into that in a project here, and had to give up and let the "magic" work by removing all prefixes. Once I did that, and just referenced url(icon.png) in my CSS, everything just worked. (icon.png was in the app/assets/images folder, the stylesheet referencing it was in the app/assets/stylesheets folder.) Walter > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-talk/-/OMfFgRvVr1EJ. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
