Using paths in javascript assets in rails 3.1.rc1

Question

I have a file called myjavascript.js.erb in my assets path. This is where I put all my project related javascript etc.

As I understand it, rails runs this file through the erb interpreter first and then loads the resulting JS file.

I have the following line in my file

console.log( "<%= root_path %>" );

I was hoping that this would log the root path of the project but unfortunately it seems to only get me

"/path to rails project omitted/app/assets/javascripts"

Surely this should point to the root of my project? Am I doing something wrong?

ardavis · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-30 19:15:20Z

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You can use

Rails.root

To get to the root path in Rails.

answered May 30, 2011 at 19:15

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David Tuite Over a year ago

I see. What about the path to the index action of one of my controllers?

ardavis Over a year ago

I think it would be "/users/index" or something. I'm not too certain about that at the moment. Might want to make a separate question for that. Does my post fully answer your first question?

ardavis Over a year ago

It's okay to ask lots of questions on here. I may not have the answer to the other one, but I'm sure someone does :)

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