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

If you are using a modern version of rails (3.1 or later I believe), you can use:

background: url('../dep.jpg');

Since the css also lives in your assets folder .. automatically refers to the assets folder.