Display static image in public folder (rails 4)

Question

I have some images in the public folder, I obtain the url /public/link/to/image.jpg in my controller. I want to display it in my view, so I passed the url to the view.

But how can I display it on the webpage?

I searched through the post, most of them related to photos stored in assets folder, whichi can be retrieved by <%= image_tag image-url (filename) %> in view.

So how could I display image in public folder in view?

Answer 1

I just tested this out in one of my applications, adding an image to the public folder, and was able to render it in view by using:

<img src="/your_image_file_name.png">

I've never done it through the public folder before, but if I had to guess I'd say you don't need the "/public" part of the file path.

If I understand the question, that should do it - hope to have helped.

Answer 2

You can also use Rails-way via <%= image_tag("/path/to/file.jpg") %>

For security reasons, image_tag can only look inside /public, so you don't have to specify /public in the path — it will get added automatically.

Remark - try always to store images in subfolders in /public as it (image_tag) will not work if you omit /public and simply pass the image filename to image_tag, like <%= image_tag("filename.jpg") %> <- in this case it will go search /assets/images folder.

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