[LRUG] Assset pipeline

[Murray Steele]

Repost for the list. Oops!

On 7 March 2014 11:04, Murray Steele <murray.steele at gmail.com> wrote:

> Where do the images that the asset paths refer to come from?
>
> Are they static?  If so then it might be easiest to just leave them in
> /public/.
>
> If they're dynamic, or you want to use the asset-pipeline to get proper
> versioning of those static assets you could consider either:
>
> 1. pre-parsing the markdown to find local image references and replace
> /image/articles/some-photo.png with the output of
> asset_path('articles/some-photo.png'),
> 2. creating a custom bit of markdown formatting (perhaps: ![Some text
> here]{some-photo}) and parsing that separately (I think most markdown
> engines allow you to hook in and provide new bits of formatting).
>
> Muz
>
>
>
>
> On 7 March 2014 10:50, Andrew Stewart <boss at airbladesoftware.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello LRUG!
>>
>> I'm upgrading a Rails app from 3.0 to 3.1.  I have an article model which
>> stores the article's text as markdown.  I use HAML's markdown filter to
>> render it like this:
>>
>>     # app/views/articles/show.html.haml
>>     %h1= @article.title
>>     :markdown
>>       #{@article.contents}
>>
>> Some of these articles contain images.  Previously all the image
>> references looked like:
>>
>>     ![Some text here](/images/articles/some-photo.png)
>>
>> Given the asset pipeline, what paths should I use now?
>>
>> I see two options:
>>
>> - either ignore the asset pipeline altogether for these images (by
>> keeping them in public/images/articles/);
>> - or find a way to evaluate Rails's asset_path() helper within my
>> markdown text.
>>
>> What's the preferred approach here?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Andy Stewart
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