On Jul 24, 5:26 pm, Jan Kadera <[email protected]> wrote: > To Frederick: > "What do you mean by 'there are no relative paths in rails' ?" > As I understand the difference, there is some point in the computer > directory tree, where is said I'm working, for example > /home/myusername/RubyApps/rails/default > now if I want to link something inside of that directory, you just type name > of the file, because some kind of magic or more than human power will know > it should first look there. > On the other hand the absolute path is recognized by starting with the only > root of the whole computer filesystem, like "/" or "C:\" > > ...so if I have to use "/" in the pseudo-relative path like this, then I > guess I'm using absolute path from the relative point described above, which > I absolutely don't get.
Almost - you're looking at it from the point of view of your computer whereas you need to be looking it at from the point of view of the web browser & web server: / doesn't mean the root of your hard drive, it means the root of your website, which for a rails app is your_rails_app/public. Relative paths are relative to the page the browser is currently sitting on, so if your browser is displaying http://foo.com/blah then an image with path 'pics/logo.png' will request http://foo.com/blah/pics/logo.png whereas '/pics/logo.png' will request http://foo.com/pics/logo.png Fred -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
