Ruby on Rails

In the meantime I've figured out a way to get what I want:

ActionController::Base.new.view_context.asset_path "myimage.png"

On 09/01/2011 12:10 PM, Mark Kremer wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm working on a Rails app that uses an external asset host for images
> and such. I've got my app configured to use the asset host in the
> environment file. The URL to the asset host is properly rendered when
> using an image_tag in the view per example (it will correctly set the
> src to http://asset.host.url/assets/myimage.png instead of
> /assets/myimage.png).
>
> I'm using paperclip to attach images to my models, and I want to
> specify a default URL for models that don't have an image. I traced
> the logic being used by image_tag to
> ActionView::Helpers::AssetTagHelper::AssetPath#compute_public_path,
> but I can't seem to figure out how to call this logic from outside of
> my views.
>
> Can anyone enlighten me as to how to do this correctly?
>
> Regards,
> Mark
>

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