Developer Guidelines

This page list things you need to know if you are changing specific parts of the app.

Image paths

Paths for images and icons should be written like this:

• some form of image helper should always be used, there are various helpers depending on the context and desired output, such as: image_tag, image_path, etc...
• paths should be relative to the /app/assets/images folder
• if a path to a static image is not passed to a helper, or is given with a / at the beginning, it will not correctly include the fingerprint, and possibly break
• for example an image under /app/assets/images/home/banner.jpg should be: image_path("home/banner.jpg"). This will correctly add the fingerprint when generating the image URL.
• Rails 4 includes some helpers for use within SASS files as well, check out #image-url