Rails 4 image-path image-url and asset-url no longer work in SCSS files

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Are we supposed to use something else aside from image-url and others in Rails 4  They return different values that don t seem to make sense  If I have logo png in  app assets images logo png and I do the following  this is what I get   image-url  logo png   - gt  url   images logo png    obviously doesn t work image-path  logo png   - gt    images logo png  asset-url  logo png   - gt  url   logo png     Of course none of these work because they need at least  assets in front   UPDATE  Actually  I just noticed  how do I access images in Rails 4  I have an image at  app assets images logo png  But if I go to any of the following URLs  I still don t see my image   http   localhost 3000 assets logo png http   localhost 3000 assets images logo png http   localhost 3000 logo png http   localhost 3000 images logo png   UPDATE 2  The only way I can bring up my logo png is by moving it into the  app assets stylesheets directory and then pulling up   http   localhost 3000 assets logo png

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I had a similar problem  trying to add a background image with inline css  No need to specify the images folder due to the way asset sync works   This worked for me   background-image  url   assets image jpg

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I just found out  that by using asset url helper you solve that problem   asset url  backgrounds pattern png   image

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for stylesheets    url asset path  image jpg

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In case anyone arrives looking for how to generate a relative path from the rails console ActionView  Helpers  AssetTagHelper image path  my image png     gt   quot  images my image png quot   Or the controller include ActionView  Helpers  AssetTagHelper image path  my image png     gt   quot  images my image png quot

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Rails 4 0 0 will look image defined with image-url in same directory structure with your css file    For example  if your css in assets stylesheets main css scss  image-url  logo png   becomes url  assets logo png    If you move your css file to assets stylesheets cpanel main css scss  image-url  logo png   becomes  assets cpanel logo png   If you want to use image directly under assets images directory  you can use asset-url  logo png

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Your first formulation  image url  logo png    is correct  If the image is found  it will generate the path  assets logo png  plus a hash in production   However  if Rails cannot find the image that you named  it will fall back to  images logo png   The next question is  why isn t Rails finding your image  If you put it in app assets images logo png  then you should be able to access it by going to http   localhost 3000 assets logo png    If that works  but your CSS isn t updating  you may need to clear the cache  Delete tmp cache assets from your project directory and restart the server  webrick  etc     If that fails  you can also try just using background-image  url logo png   That will cause your CSS to look for files with the same relative path  which in this case is  assets

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I just had this issue myself  3 points that will hopefully help    If you place images in your app assets images directory  then you should be able to call the image directly with no prefix in the path  ie  image url  logo png   Depending on where you use the asset will depend on the method  If you are using it as a background-image  property  then your line of code should be background-image  image-url  logo png    This works for both less and sass stylesheets  If you are using it inline in the view  then you will need to use the built in image tag helper in rails to output your image  Once again  no prefixing  lt    image tag  logo png    gt  Lastly  if you are precompiling your assets  run rake assets precompile to generate your assets  or rake assets precompile RAILS ENV production for production  otherwise  your production environment will not have the fingerprinted assets when loading the page    Also for those commands in point 3 you will need to prefix them with bundle exec if you are running bundler

[ruby-on-rails] Rails 4 image-path, image-url and asset-url no longer work in SCSS files

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