Images patch relative to [custom] view directory

Question

Hi,

In my Rails application, user may have custom page templates (not for the application) which are stored in public/user_templates/user1/

the view .erb file is also stored there in the user template folder. There is an images folder inside every template folder. How can I use the relative paths of the images in the .erb file?

For example <img src"images/image1" />

Thanks, Imran

Answer 1

You can't access static files inside of your app directory without passing them through a route somehow. You should create a directory for each user_id in the public/images folder of your application, then store the images for each user there. Then you can access those images at <img src="images/#{user_id}/image1.jpg" /> or with a view helper image_tag "#{user_id}/image1.jpg" Depending on your application, you may want to use Paperclip