In 3.1 you just get rid of the ‘images’ part of the path. So an image that lives in /assets/images/example.png
will actually be accessible in a get request at this url – /assets/example.png
Because the assets/images
folder gets generated along with a new 3.1 app, this is the convention that they probably want you to follow. I think that’s where image_tag
will look for it, but I haven’t tested that yet.
Also, during the RailsConf keynote, I remember D2h saying the the public folder
should not have much in it anymore, mostly just error pages and a favicon.