Rails - Jun 2005 - Prefix compute_public_path

I have lighttpd setup with my rails app in a sub folder that is proxied 
through apache.  This is causing my compute_public_path to return a 
wrong directory structure(/ instead of /punchlist).  I need to prefix 
the returned string with ''/punchlist/''

I tried overwriting ActionController::Base.asset_host =
''/punchlist'' in
environment.rb but this caused my application to just hang. 

Does anyone know of a safe place to overwrite 
ActionController::Base.asset_host  or of another way to tell 
compute_public_path that I need a directory prefix?

I have already done
class ActionController::AbstractRequest
 def relative_url_root() "/some/path" end
end

And this got my link_tos working but my stylesheet_link_tags and 
javascript_include_tags are still broken.

Thank you,
Matthew Margolis

Matthew Margolis wrote:
> I have lighttpd setup with my rails app in a sub folder that is 
> proxied through apache.  This is causing my compute_public_path to 
> return a wrong directory structure(/ instead of /punchlist).  I need 
> to prefix the returned string with ''/punchlist/''
>
> I tried overwriting ActionController::Base.asset_host =
''/punchlist''
> in environment.rb but this caused my application to just hang.
> Does anyone know of a safe place to overwrite 
> ActionController::Base.asset_host  or of another way to tell 
> compute_public_path that I need a directory prefix?
>
> I have already done
> class ActionController::AbstractRequest
> def relative_url_root() "/some/path" end
> end
>
> And this got my link_tos working but my stylesheet_link_tags and 
> javascript_include_tags are still broken.
>
> Thank you,
> Matthew Margolis
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rorist helped me out in irc.  If I put

  def compute_public_path(source,dir,ext)
    dir = "myprefix/#{dir}"
    super(source,dir,ext)
  end

in application_helper.rb it lets me choose a prefix for any link 
generated by compute_public_path.


Sorry for the noise, hopefully this will help someone else.

-Matt Margolis