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Hi, I am working through Agile Web Development with Rails and I am at pg 69 second last paragraph says "put some images in the public/images directory......" how do you code the link that is stored in the data base I have tried http:public/images/name .jpg with no avail I have tried the fully qualified address http://home/../../../../name.jpg also with no luck. How should I code this?