Rails - May 2006 - Accessing file in public directory

How do i access a file in the public directory of rails application? I 
have several html files in there and i want to link them from the rhtml 
file. Basically  to display a popup. Here is the code in foo.rhtml:
<a href="javascript:popUp(''/summary.html'')"
class="normal">Learn
more</a>
It doesn''t work. Any idea why?

Thanks,

Lantis.

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Lantis Sephiro wrote:
> How do i access a file in the public directory of rails application? I 
> have several html files in there and i want to link them from the rhtml 
> file. Basically  to display a popup. Here is the code in foo.rhtml:
> <a href="javascript:popUp(''/summary.html'')"
class="normal">Learn
> more</a>
> It doesn''t work. Any idea why?
It should do.  Does a non-javascript <a
href=''/summary.html''>link</a> work?

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Alex

Alex Young wrote:
> Lantis Sephiro wrote:
>> How do i access a file in the public directory of rails application? I 
>> have several html files in there and i want to link them from the rhtml
>> file. Basically  to display a popup. Here is the code in foo.rhtml:
>> <a
href="javascript:popUp(''/summary.html'')"
class="normal">Learn
>> more</a>
>> It doesn''t work. Any idea why?
> It should do.  Does a non-javascript <a
href=''/summary.html''>link</a>
> work?
It does work in my local machine. It doesn''t work though when i put it 
on a web server. A normal link <a href=''/summary.html''>
doesnt work
either when i put it on the web server.

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Lantis Sephiro wrote:
> Alex Young wrote:
> 
>>Lantis Sephiro wrote:
>>
>>>How do i access a file in the public directory of rails application?
I
>>>have several html files in there and i want to link them from the
rhtml
>>>file. Basically  to display a popup. Here is the code in foo.rhtml:
>>><a
href="javascript:popUp(''/summary.html'')"
class="normal">Learn
>>>more</a>
>>>It doesn''t work. Any idea why?
>>
>>It should do.  Does a non-javascript <a
href=''/summary.html''>link</a>
>>work?
> 
> 
> It does work in my local machine. It doesn''t work though when i
put it
> on a web server. A normal link <a
href=''/summary.html''> doesnt work
> either when i put it on the web server.
Do the stylesheets work from the dynamic pages?  If so, what do the 
stylesheet tags in the generated source look like?

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Alex

> Do the stylesheets work from the dynamic pages?  If so, what do the
> stylesheet tags in the generated source look like?
The stylesheets work. This is the generated tag:
<link href="/project/demo/myapp/stylesheets/style.css"
media="all"
rel="Stylesheet" type="text/css" />

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Lantis Sephiro wrote:
>>Do the stylesheets work from the dynamic pages?  If so, what do the
>>stylesheet tags in the generated source look like?
> 
> 
> The stylesheets work. This is the generated tag:
> <link href="/project/demo/myapp/stylesheets/style.css"
media="all"
> rel="Stylesheet" type="text/css" />
> 
In that case, it looks like you''ll need to use:

   <a
href=''/project/demo/myapp/summary.html''>link</a>

Can''t think off the top of my head why you might need the extra routing
information, though.

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Alex

> In that case, it looks like you''ll need to use:
> 
>    <a
href=''/project/demo/myapp/summary.html''>link</a>
> 
> Can''t think off the top of my head why you might need the extra
routing
> information, though.
Prefixing ''/project/demo/myapp/'' for each link does the trick.
Like you,
i still dont get why the extra routing is necessary. Is it because a 
symbolic link to hook up the application?

THanks,

Lantis.

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