On Jan 9, 10:55 pm, Lee Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Well the image issue is easily corrected...use the view helper for > image tags: > > <%=image_tag("avatar.gif", :alt => "", :style => "border: 1px solid > #ddd; padding: 3px; margin: 0 10px 0 0;")%> > > That way I'm able to let Rails handle the application pathing just > like the restful routes...and no mention of any env variable. > > But that won't work for the favicon which sits in public/ so I'm still > tied down to having to include that env variable in the view like > that? > > And the question I have about the action controller relative_url_root > config option...what does that do exactly and how do I use it? Or do > I need to use it? My app is sitting in a subdirectory and it's > working without that settting (I'm still declaring > RAILS_RELATIVE_URL_ROOT though to get the favicon working). > > Thanks for any help.
relative_url_root just.... refers to the app's relative url root. It's prepended to the path returned by in javascript_include_tag, image_tag, and such. You can access this variable in your helpers/ whatever via ActionController::Base.relative_url_root.
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