In my rails app, I tried to load CSS into my view like this :
<link src="assets/stylesheets/myStyleSheet.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
and it works.
BUT When I tried to load a JavaScript file as below,
<script src="assets/javascripts/libs/modernizr-2.6.2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
I am getting a 404 error (Same error for some images also)
All my files are in the right place, so does anybody have an idea to solve it?
Thanks.
You should better use asset pipeline to include js and css files into your application.
For current example, put into your app/assets/javascripts/application.js
//= require ./libs/modernizr-2.6.2
In your app/assets/stylesheets/application.css.scss
/*
*= require ./myStyleSheet
*/
And into your .html.erb file (e.g. application.html.erb, in <head> section)
<%= stylesheet_link_tag "application" %>
<%= javascript_include_tag "application" %>
put a slash '/' before assets in the start of the src. and also css file should be included with link href not with src though it will work but not a good practice.
<link href="/assets/css_file_path.css" media="screen" rel="stylesheet" />
<script src="/assets/path_to_js_file.js"></script>
Please add a custom path to the asset pipeline in the below file:
# config/application.rb
config.assets.paths << Rails.root.join("app", "assets", "javascripts", "libs")
Then, in your JavaScript manifest file (mostly application.js), require the js file in order to take it when doing pre-compilation:
//= require modernizr-2.6.2.min
In your CSS manifest file (mostly application.css.sass), add the below line:
/*
*= require myStyleSheet
*/
If you have any individual external JavaScript file to include, you can add them to the precompile array in config/application.rb:
config.assets.precompile += ['custom.min.js']
If you want to see the assets loaded through the asset path, you can use this in the console:
Rails.application.config.assets.paths
Hope this could be the best option to use. :)