[Rails] Re: Replacing an xxx.png with a xxx.jpg in public/images OK?

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:12:52 -0800 

Hi Conrad,

Thanks for your response.

> PNG, JPEG, and GIF has nothing really to do with Rails.
Great!  I couldn't how enacting my plan could run afoul of Rails.  But
there's always the possibility that I overlooked something.  So I
sought advice from more experience Rails people.

> you need to make sure that you're referencing images correctly within your 
> page.
I got that covered in this case; I'm paralleling a working app.

Best wishes,
Richard



On Feb 26, 7:49 pm, Conrad Taylor <conra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:30 PM, RichardOnRails <
>
>
>
> richarddummymailbox58...@uscomputergurus.com> wrote:
> > Hi ALL,
>
> > I'm building a Rails app using the app provided in Ruby On Rails
> > Cookbook.  The book's app works "out of the box" after appropriate
> > tweaks: adding a "log" directory, adding a root password in
> > database.yml and a couple of rake executions ... which is more than I
> > can say for many books.  (Just wanted to give it a plug.)
>
> > In public/images he's got a main_logo.png file which he references in
> > the <body> of application.html.erb in
> > ink_to image_tag('main_logo.png').
>
> > I've got a .jpg that I'd use in place of a .png because my JPEG loses
> > detail when I convert to PNG.  I expect that JPEGs and GIFs and other
> > major graphic encodings should work just as well in Rails as PNGs.  Is
> > that true?
>
> PNG, JPEG, and GIF has nothing really to do with Rails.  The browser
> handles the displaying of images when a page is rendered.  Thus, any of
> the above mentioned formats should work.  However, you need to make
> sure that you're referencing images correctly within your page.
>
> -Conrad
>
> > I ask because despite the fact that I'm using a working Rails app as
> > guide,  I'm confident I'll make some mistakes I'll have to debug.  I'm
> > just trying in advance to avoid one here.
>
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Richard
>
> > --
> > 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 rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com.
> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
> > rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<rubyonrails-talk%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com>
> > .
> > For more options, visit this group at
> >http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.

-- 
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 rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to 
rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at 
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.

Reply via email to