Add vendor/assets/javascripts to my valid assets route

Question

I'm trying to make this work but it's driving me mad. I already set this in

application.rb

config.assets.paths << Rails.root.join("vendor", "assets", "javascripts").to_s

(.to_s because it returns an object while I want a string in here). I cant find the solution and is driving me mad, because stylesheets directory in vendor works, but javascripts is not.

How can i do this?

Error returned:

<h1>Routing Error</h1>
<p><pre>No route matches [GET] &quot;/assets/ext-all-debug.js&quot;</pre></p>

Answer 1

I believe vendor is already included in your assets path, check using the rails console

rails console
Rails.application.config.assets.paths.each do |path|; puts path; end

However the easiest thing might be this

• put ext at app/assets/javascripts/lib
• require_tree will load it already or be explicit

application.js

//= require ./lib/ext-all-debug.js

If you really want it in vendor

• create dir vendor/assets/javascripts/ext
• create manifest file vendor/assets/javascripts/ext/index.js
• put ext-all-debug.js into vendor/assets/javascripts/ext/

code for index.js

//= require ./ext-all-debug.js

code for application.js

//= require ext

that is the name of the dir that the index manifest file is located

Restart your rails server

if you don't want to load extjs via application.js, i.e. you want to include the extjs lib only on specific pages

<%= javascript_include_tag "ext" %>