Rails 3.1 and Image Assets

Question

I have put all my images for my admin theme in the assets folder within a folder called admin. Then I link to it like normal ie.

# Ruby    
image_tag "admin/file.jpg" .....
#CSS
.logo{ background:url('/assets/images/admin/logo.png');

FYI. Just for testing I am not using the asset_path tag just yet as I have not compiled my assets.

Ok all good so far until I decided to update an image. I replaced some colors but on reload the new styled image is not showing. If I view the image directly in the browser its still showing the old image. Going one step further I destroyed the admin images folder. But it has broken nothing all the images are still being displayed. And yes I have cleared my cache and have tried on multiple browsers.

Is there some sort of image caching going on? This is just local development using pow to serve the pages.

Even destroying the whole images folder the images are still being served.

Am I missing something?

Answer 1

In 3.1 you just get rid of the 'images' part of the path. So an image that lives in /assets/images/example.png will actually be accessible in a get request at this url - /assets/example.png

Because the assets/images folder gets generated along with a new 3.1 app, this is the convention that they probably want you to follow. I think that's where image_tag will look for it, but I haven't tested that yet.

Also, during the RailsConf keynote, I remember D2h saying the the public folder should not have much in it anymore, mostly just error pages and a favicon.