Manifest hash is empty

[amitfriedman12]

Hello.

I'm trying to use your gem in order to reference a jpg file I have in my assets folder.
Specifically:

assets/images/my_folder/1.jpg

So for instance when I copy this path to the browser:
http://localhost.com:3002/assets/my_folder/1.jpg
I get a valid image displayed.

However when I use your image tag helper:
image_tag("my_folder/1.jpg")

I get an error being raised in the asset_path method:

function asset_path(path){
    if(manifest.hasOwnProperty(path)){
      return '/assets/' + manifest[path];
    }
    else{
      throw Error('missing asset: ' + path);
    }
  };

actually, manifest seems to get instantiated to be an empty js object {}, so of course manifest.hasOwnProperty(path) will return false.

Am I missing something here?
Are there any additional setup steps I must take?

Your help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks you

[johnnypez]

Hey,
I stopped maintaining this gem a long time ago and I just don't have any time to look at this right now. It was written for Rails ~3.2 so any changes in later versions might have broken the gem.

If you want to take a look into it yourself, fork the repo and add a line to print out any assets that are found here: https://github.com/johnnypez/assets_js/blob/master/app/assets/javascripts/assets_js.js.erb#L24 and work your way from there.

John