image_tag points to assets/ in Rails 3

Question

I'm migrating Rails app from 2 to 3.

Somehow from,

link_to image_tag("icon.png")

img's src attribute is prefixed with "/assets/icon.png" instead of "/images/icon.png" as it was in Rails 2.

What is the correct way? Thanks

Answer 1

Rails 3.1+ was released with a new set of features referred to collectively as the "Asset Pipeline." Read all about it in the Rails Asset Pipeline documentation.