[ruby-on-rails] Add image to layout in ruby on rails

I would like to add an image in my template for my ruby on rails project where i currenly have the code <img src="../../../public/images/rss.jpg" alt="rss feed" /> in a the layout stores.html.erb file however this doesn't seem to load as it looks like its missing a route which i'm not sure what its supposed to be.

Any ideas please?

image_tag is the best way to do the job friend

When using the new ruby, the image folder will go to asset folder on folder app

after placing your images in image folder, use

<%=image_tag("example_image.png", alt: "Example Image")%>

simple just use the img tag helper. Rails knows to look in the images folder in the asset pipeline, you can use it like this

<%= image_tag "image.jpg" %>

It's working for me:

<%= image_tag( root_url + "images/rss.jpg", size: "50x50", :alt => "rss feed") -%>

In a Ruby on Rails project by default the root of the HTML source for the server is the public directory. So your link would be:

<img src="images/rss.jpg" alt="rss feed" />

But it is best practice in a Rails project to use the built in helper:

<%= image_tag("rss.jpg", :alt => "rss feed") %>

That will create the correct image link plus if you ever add assert servers, etc it will work with those.