On May 2, 2015, at 1:23 PM, Elizabeth McGurty <[email protected]> wrote:

> SORRY about the previous.... How does one edit here after POST?

This is a mailing list (even if you are looking at it through one of the many 
Web interfaces), and you can't edit mail after you send it.

> 
> 
> Working with Rails 3.0
> 
> From numerous controllers with associated views, I need to display images.
> 
> In the views to retrieve an images I have:
> 
>  <img src="<%= get_image_path(@object.image_file_name) %> />
> 
> I have also used the Rails <img src counterpart...
> 
> get_image_path is defined in the Application helper:
> 
> module ApplicationHelper
>   def get_image_path(sought_image_file_name)
> 
>     return_string = ''
>     unless sought_image_file_name.blank?    ## although I do testing for 
> blank?  image_file_name in the erb view
>       return_string = "#{Rails.application.root}/public/images/item_images/" 
> + sought_image_file_name
>       ### Have tried return_string "../public and "./public and these have 
> not worked 
>     end
>     return return_string
>   end
> ...
> 
> But I keep getting the error:
> 
> Started GET 
> "/home/echomarket/echomarket.org/public/images/item_images/zv37bNYgL25LisYvnGfGkKMndfm7ZD_Chrysanthemum.jpg"
>  for ... 
> 
> ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches 
> "/home/echomarket/echomarket.org/public/images/item_images/zv37bNYgL25LisYvnGfGkKMndfm7ZD_Chrysanthemum.jpg"):
> 
> The file definitely exists in that path, per FIleZilla and Putty

When you are trying to access a file through a Web browser, you need a **web 
root**-relative path, not a **filesystem root**-relative path. The web root 
path to a static file begins at public, so any file that exists in the 
your-project-folder/public folder would be at /.

This file:

/home/echomarket/echomarket.org/public/images/item_images/zv37bNYgL25LisYvnGfGkKMndfm7ZD_Chrysanthemum.jpg

Would have this URL (assuming you were accessing it from http://echomarket.org):

http://echomarket.org/images/zv37bNYgL25LisYvnGfGkKMndfm7ZD_Chrysanthemum.jpg

The Rails.root starting point is only needed if you are trying to access the 
file directly from your server on its filesystem using File.open or similar.

Walter

> 
> I do not understand the tie between routes.rb and multiple controllers....
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Liz
> 
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