Rails - Aug 2006 - Not your basic "Where to put non-rails stuff" question

Hello,

I''m not that clear on where some things go - and would rather put them 
in the right place out the gate than go back and fix them.  I''m working
my way through several Ruby/Rails books I got from O''Reilly - with a 
particular project in mind - and that project presents some 
not-so-typical requirements.

I want to have a rails-based web-app to gather data, and then use the 
data to generate static web pages for consumption by a web server that 
doesn''t support server-side scripting (just accept it as given). 
I''ll
probably use ruby/dbi to generate the html pages (unless it''s 
better/easier to do this from rails - please share if you have an 
recommendations).

Part or this project is about annotating images, in files which will be 
stored on the filesystem.  The image files are required to be in a given 
directory relative to the target site''s home directory 
("images/filename.jpg")on the target hosting.

If I put the image files in public/images would the relative path in my 
view controlers be the same?  (I''m just wrapping my head around the
view
side - having just gotten the Model / Migration / Scaffold stuff 
working.)

If I put the image files in public/images, would the value of 
image.filename in by Image model best be "images/filename.jpg" or is
it
just as easy to add the relative directory to the name in the viewer?

Or should I just put the image files in public (not a subdirectory) and 
pre-pend the proper relative directory only on the output html page 
generation (which implies copying the files from my rails public 
directory to my other-site/images directory?

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Pauli

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