Rails - where to put a css file?

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I put my css file into public/stylesheets directory (by the way, there was no stylesheets directory by default). From the layout in app/views I render it by

<%= stylesheet_link_tag "main" %>

When I view the page css doesn't appear to work(no changes comparing with clean html), in the html code I see this one:

<link href="/assets/main.css" media="screen" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

I don't understand why are assets here instead of stylesheets and what am I doing wrong?

mu is too short · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-17 03:38:19Z

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Rails 3.1, right? If so, you'd want to put your stylesheet in app/assets/stylesheets/main.css.

answered Oct 17, 2011 at 3:38

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jefflunt · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-17 03:37:01Z

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Is there a file at /assets/main.css? Use that instead, or replace it.

What version of rails are you using? Rails3? Are you following a Rails2 tutorial by chance?

answered Oct 17, 2011 at 3:37

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Sergey Over a year ago

I use rails3 and even in rails tutorial guides.rubyonrails.org/layouts_and_rendering.html it's said that the directory should be /public/stylesheets.

jefflunt Over a year ago

I think that tutorial is slightly out of date, if you're using the very latest Rails 3.1 (per mu's answer).

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