How to access server images from your Rails url

To show images that are in the directory public you can request them directly, considering public as root; for example 1 :

<img src="/images/imagen.jpg" />

To get the image directly from your server, you could do it like this (as you show in your example):

http://miservidor.com/images/imagen.jpg

Instead, to show images that are in assets , you can use the helper image_tag ; for example:

<img src="<%= image_tag('/assets/images/image.jpg') %>" />

In this case you could not get the image through your browser as in the previous example.

1 In order to see the images directly (eg http://miservidor.com/images/imagen.jpg ) you must make sure you have the following line in the environments / production.rb :

config.serve_static_assets = true