sass-rails helpers "image-url", "asset-url" are not working in rails 3.2.1

Question

I am on 3.2.1, with sass-rails-3.2.4 and sass-3.1.15...

The documentation for the asset pipeline says:

asset-url("rails.png", image) becomes url(/assets/rails.png)
image-url("rails.png") becomes url(/assets/rails.png)

...

So I made the following file:

# app/assets/stylesheets/public/omg.css.sass

body
  background: asset-url('snake.gif', image)

#lol
  background: image-url('snake.gif')

and when I visit localhost:3000/assets/public/omg.css I get:

body {
  background: asset-url("snake.gif", image); }

#lol {
  background: image-url("snake.gif"); }

... I also tried changing the file to omg.css.scss and changed the syntax to:

# app/assets/stylesheets/public/omg.css.scss

body {
  background: asset-url('snake.gif', image);
}

#lol {
  background: image-url('snake.gif');
}

but get the same results... does anyone have any idea why these helpers are not working?

Answer 1

Despite what the documentation says, it seems the default options in rails 3.2.6 allow you to just make things work with even less path information in your CSS. E.g. ../app/assets/images/rails.png is references in your example.css.scss file with something like:

background: white url(rails.png) repeat-y;

You don't include the image-url or asset-url into your scss (as far as I know), just plain url(your_image.png). That bit of documentation appears to be just an explanation of what it is doing in the background.