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favicon the rails way

I followed the advice I found here on stackOverflow, and added the following to the section of my layouts/application.html.erb:

<%= favicon_link_tag '/favicon.ico' %>

favicon.ico is in my public folder I also tried to place it in the assets/images folder

I restarted the rails server (local development environment on the MAC, Rails 3.2.xxx), but I'm not seeing the favicon. Any ideas?

Solution

  • Three things to check:

    • Does the favicon_link_tag properly render in the HTML source of your document?

    • Does the favicon.ico URL that it renders point to a valid file, is the path wrong or do you maybe have a permissions issue with that?

    • Did you refresh your browser's cache? In most browsers, do so by holding Ctrl or Shift while reloading the website. See also: Wikipedia: Bypass your cache