Rails 3.1 absolute URL to an image

Question

I\'m using Rails 3.1. I\'m trying to figure this out, and to my surprise, it is starting to seem that rails does not come with this method at all. Maybe im wrong.

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Answer 1

put this in application_helper.rb

def asset_url asset
  "#{request.protocol}#{request.host_with_port}#{asset_path(asset)}"
end

then you can use asset_url in your views.