Favicon in Ruby on Rails application [duplicate]

Question

I put favicon.ico into /public/ folder and include the following code into layout page

<%= favicon_link_tag %>

But inspite of it, the icon doesn't display. What should I do?

Answer 1

I have struggled with the same. This is what worked for me:

<%= favicon_link_tag 'favicon.ico' %>

and moving the favicon.ico to the /public/images directory.

Good luck!

Answer 2

I don't know what favicon_link_tag is in your app but in general, there are two ways to create a favicon.

1. Put your icon file in your app root directory (/public). In this case, you don't have to do anything in your code. (does not work in seamonkey, works in all other browsers I know)

2. Place a link element in the code of your master view:

    <link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon" href="/relative/path/to/file.ico" />