Rails 4 image-path, image-url and asset-url no longer work in SCSS files

at. picture at. · May 30, 2013 · Viewed 140.4k times · Source

Are we supposed to use something else aside from image-url and others in Rails 4? They return different values that don't seem to make sense. If I have logo.png in /app/assets/images/logo.png and I do the following, this is what I get:

image-url("logo.png") -> url("/images/logo.png") #obviously doesn't work
image-path("logo.png") -> "/images/logo.png"
asset-url("logo.png") -> url("/logo.png")

Of course none of these work because they need at least /assets in front.

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Answer

cdaloisio picture cdaloisio · Nov 26, 2013

I just had this issue myself. 3 points that will hopefully help:

  • If you place images in your app/assets/images directory, then you should be able to call the image directly with no prefix in the path. ie. image_url('logo.png')
  • Depending on where you use the asset will depend on the method. If you are using it as a background-image: property, then your line of code should be background-image: image-url('logo.png'). This works for both less and sass stylesheets. If you are using it inline in the view, then you will need to use the built in image_tag helper in rails to output your image. Once again, no prefixing <%= image_tag 'logo.png' %>
  • Lastly, if you are precompiling your assets, run rake assets:precompile to generate your assets, or rake assets:precompile RAILS_ENV=production for production, otherwise, your production environment will not have the fingerprinted assets when loading the page.

Also for those commands in point 3 you will need to prefix them with bundle exec if you are running bundler.