Ruby on Rails

Monday, December 26, 2011, 3:45:08 PM, you wrote:

RS> Monday, December 26, 2011, 1:17:14 PM, you wrote:

RS>> Referring to http://guides.rubyonrails.org/asset_pipeline.html it says:

RS>> - - - -
RS>> You can add additional (fully qualified) paths to the pipeline in
RS>> config/application.rb. For example:
RS>> config.assets.paths << Rails.root.join("app", "assets", "flash")
RS>> - - - -

RS>> I did that but when I look at
RS>> Rails.application.config.assets.paths
RS>> later in the code, the path to app/assets/flash has disappeared.

RS>> What's the right way to add a path to assets?

RS>> --
RS>> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

RS> I'll answer my own question.

RS> The documentation is wrong.

RS> Instead create a file (an initializer) in config\initializers. I called mine
RS> add_to_asset_paths.rb

RS> My config\initializers\add_to_asset_paths.rb looks like
RS> - - - - -
RS> # Ralph: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/asset_pipeline.html is wrong
RS> Rails.application.config.assets.paths << (Rails.root.join("app", "assets", "flash")).to_s
RS> - - - - -

RS> I hope this saves someone else from pulling their hair out.

I'll add another issue to this.

It appears that if the path is of the form
vendor\bundle\ruby\1.9.1\gems\jw_player_helper-0.0.1\assets\javascripts

(that is, the append looks like this:)

Rails.application.config.assets.paths <<
(Rails.root.join("app", "vendor","bundle","ruby","1.9.1","gems","jw_player_helper-0.0.1","assets", "javascripts")).to_s

that the asset manager (sprockets?) won't find
c:\RailsInstaller\Sites\ultradedup002\vendor\bundle\ruby\1.9.1\gems\jw_player_helper-0.0.1\assets\javascripts\swfobject.js
when you do a
- javascript_include_tag('swfobject.js')
in your view.

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