Serve Images from Asset Host When Using CSS background-image property in Rails

Question

I recently started serving static assets (mainly images) from an asset host for my Rails project.

A small portion of my images are not being served from the asset host because they are displayed using the CSS background-image property rather than image_tag

Is there are clean workaround for this? I'd rather not create a "stylesheets" controller because I'm using the asset-packager plugin and would like to preserve this functionality.

Thanks! Moe

Answer 1

You should be able to put the full path in the url inside your CSS:

background:url({asset_domain}/images/image.png) repeat-x left top;