Adding a background image in Ruby on Rails 2 in CSS

Question

I generated a scaffold in ruby and I want to insert a background image to every page on the site but Im not sure what the link to the image should be.

my image is

Answer 1

In Rails 3.1, the path will actually be `/assets/dep.jpg':

background-image: url(/assets/dep.jpg);

If you convert your scaffold.css file to a Sass file (rename to scaffold.css.scss) then you can use the helper:

background-image: image-url("dep.jpg");