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| -rw-r--r-- | railties/guides/source/asset_pipeline.textile | 11 |
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diff --git a/railties/guides/source/asset_pipeline.textile b/railties/guides/source/asset_pipeline.textile index 522a223c4b..aca3c51db5 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/asset_pipeline.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/asset_pipeline.textile @@ -127,6 +127,15 @@ Alternatively, a file with an MD5 hash after its name such as +public/assets/rai Otherwise, Sprockets will look through the available paths until it finds a file that matches the name and then will serve it, first looking in the application's assets directories and then falling back to the various engines of the application. +If you want to use a "css data uri":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme - a method of embedding the image data directly into the CSS file - you can use the +asset_data_uri+ helper. + +<css> + #logo { background: url(<%= asset_data_uri 'logo.png' %>) +</css> + +This will insert a correctly formatted data uri into the CSS source. + + h5. CSS and ERB If you add an erb extension to a css asset: @@ -272,7 +281,7 @@ task :precompile_assets do end </erb> -If you are not precompiling your assets, and you are using the default cache file store (which is the filesystem), you will need to symlink +rails_root/tmp/cache/assets+ from the shared folder that is part of the Capistrano deployment structure. This is so the cached file persist between deployments. +If you are not precompiling your assets, and you are using the default cache file store (which is the filesystem), you will need to symlink +rails_root/tmp/cache/assets+ from the shared folder that is part of the Capistrano deployment structure. This is so the cached file persist between deployments. TODO: Extend above task to allow for this and add task to set it up (See commits 8f0e0b6 and 704ee0df). |