I have Rails 4 Application with AngularJS using these gems:
- gem 'angularjs-rails'
- gem 'angular-rails-templates'
- gem 'asset_sync'
It works great with a template like this:
<img ng-controller='LikePostController'
ng-dblclick='like(post);'
ng-src='{{post.photo.standard}}'
class='lazy post_photo pt_animate_heart'
id='post_{{post.id}}_image'
/>
The Image render correctly. However in my other js
petto.directive('ptAnimateHeart', ['Helper', function(Helper){
linkFunc = function(scope, element, attributes) {
$heartIcon = $("#heart_icon");
if($heartIcon.length == 0) {
$heartIcon = $("<img id='heart_icon' src='/assets/feed.icon.heart.png' alt='Like' /> ");
$(document.body).append($heartIcon);
}
element.on('dblclick', function(event){
$animateObj = $(this);
Helper.animateHeart($animateObj);
});
}
return {
restrict: 'C',
link: linkFunc
}
}])
I got 'assets/feed.icon.heart.png' was not found error from the browser console. I have feed.icon.heart.png located under app/assets/feed.icon.heart.png.
ps: Forget to mention I use assets sync gem to host assets in amazon s3. the image worked well in development but not in production.
Hardcoded asset links only work in development because in production the assets get precompiled. Which means, amongst other things, the filename changes from:
my_image.png
into something like this (it adds and unique md5-hash):
"my_image-231a680f23887d9dd70710ea5efd3c62.png"
Try this:
Change the javascript file extension to: yourjsfile.js.erb
And the link to:
$heartIcon = $("<img id='heart_icon' src='<%= image-url("feed.icon.heart.png") %>' alt='Like' /> ");
For better understanding The Asset Pipeline — Ruby on Rails Guides
You can define the following method somewhere in your helpers, e.g. in app/helpers/application_helper.rb
:
def list_image_assets(dir_name)
path = File.expand_path("../../../app/assets/images/#{dir_name}", __FILE__)
full_paths = Dir.glob "#{path}/**.*"
assets_map = {}
full_paths.each do |p|
original_name = File.basename p
asset_path = asset_path p[p.index("#{dir_name}")..-1]
assets_map[original_name] = asset_path
end
assets_map.to_json
end
One can modify the method to work with any assets you wish, not just the ones located in subdirs of app/assets/images
as in this example. The method will return a map with all the original asset names as keys and their 'compiled' names as values.
The map returned can be passed to any angular controller via ng-init
(not generally recommended, but appropriate in this case):
<div ng-controller="NoController" ng-init="assets='<%=list_image_assets "images_dir_name"%>'"></div>
To make the assets really usable in angular, define a new $scope
valiable in the controller:
$scope.$watch('assets', function(value) {
if (value) {
$scope.assets = JSON.parse(value);
}
});
Having this in the $scope
, it's possible to use assets names as usual, in e.g. ng-src
directives, and this won't brake after the precompile process.
<img ng-src={{::assets['my_image.png']}}/>
Just do the following:
app.run(function($rootScope,$location){
$rootScope.auth_url = "http://localhost:3000"
$rootScope.image_url = $rootScope.auth_url + "/uploads/user/image/"
});
In controller inject dependency
for $rootScope
and in views
<img ng-src="{{user.image.url}}" width="100px" height="100px">
Note: It's working great in Rails API and it assumes that you've user object available so that it could specify the correct image in the /uploads/image/
directory