Ruby on Rails 3.1 and jQuery UI images

Question

I\'m using Ruby on Rails (Edge, the development version), and Ruby rvm 1.9.2.

application.js is as follows.

//= require jquery
//= requi         


        

Answer 1

For that moment, I found not a perfect but working a solution.

Assuming you have jQuery UI theme in the /vendor/assets/stylesheets/ folder. Then you have to modify application.css:

/* =require ui-lightness */

and create plugin_assets_monkey_patch.rb in the /config/initializers

Dir[File.join(Rails.root, 'vendor/assets/stylesheets/*/')].each do |dir|
    AppName::Application.config.assets.paths << dir

    index_content = '/*=require_tree .*/'

    index = File.join(dir, 'index.css')
    unless File.exist?(index)
        File.open(index, 'w') { |f| f.puts index_content }
    end
end

index.css in every /vendor/assets/stylesheets/ subfolder guarantees that stylesheets like jquery-ui-1.8.11.custom.css will be compiled (if you require that subfolder).

config.assets.paths ensures that folders like /vendor/assets/stylesheets/ui-lightness/images are visible at the application root scope.