Rails: How to set a background image in rails from css?

Question

I am using rails 3.2 and i have to set a background for one of the page and i have tried many ways and nothing went right, so looking for some good help. I have tried

Answer 1

I followed the suggestions above (Thank you!) - just in case it doesn't work for others either - this solution worked for me:

.myClass {
   background: image-url('myPicture.png');
}

so instead of "background-image" I had to use "background" in my scss.