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<p>Hi Maura,</p>
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<p>Can't you put your code up on <a title="Cmd+Click or tap to follow the link" id="LPlnk392170" href="http://gist.github.com/">
http://gist.github.com/ </a> <br>
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<p>and send a link to it? What you're doing sounds about right, but it'll be easier for me to see what's up if I can look at the code...</p>
<p>b,chris. <br>
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<div class="PlainText">Chris Fitzpatrick | <font size="2">Developer, ArchivesSpace</font><br>
Skype: chrisfitzpat | Phone: 918.236.6048<br>
http://archivesspace.org/<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org <archivesspace_users_group-bounces@lyralists.lyrasis.org> on behalf of Maura Carbone
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 21, 2015 10:02 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Archivesspace Users Group<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Archivesspace_Users_Group] RoR Guidance/Help with Index Page</font>
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<div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Hi all,</span><br>
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<div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">I've been playing with RoR and html.erb and have a question on how to implement something I've written. Hoping someone with more experience may be able to offer a little guidance as the stuff I've read hasn't been super
helpful (in part because I'm already working with pre-built stuff rather than starting entirely from scratch).</div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Right now this is our index.html.erb page:</div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><a href="http://findingaids.brandeis.edu/" target="_blank">http://findingaids.brandeis.edu/</a></div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">I wrote some ruby code that would allow the images to be randomized, and tested said ruby code in irb (so I know I get correctly returned values):</div>
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<div>x=Dir["../assets/images/aspace_home/col-1/*.jpg"]</div>
<div>y=Dir["../assets/images/aspace_home/col-2/*.jpg"]</div>
<div>z=Dir["../assets/images/aspace_home/col-3/*.jpg"]</div>
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<div>def pickImage(directory)</div>
<div> dirSize=directory.length</div>
<div> ranNum=0+rand(dirSize)</div>
<div> fileName=directory[ranNum]</div>
<div> return fileName</div>
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<div>@img1=pickImage(x)</div>
<div>@img2=pickImage(y)</div>
<div>@img3=pickImage(z)</div>
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<div>However, I'm not entirely sure how to implement this in RoR/my html.erb file. I found the index controller (I believe), the site_controller.rb and put the code inside (and outside on a few tries) the def index end block, and then added an <img src="<%=
@img1 %>" /> to my index.html.erb file but no variable is found (the page display but its like the img tag is empty).</div>
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<div>I also tried something like <% image_tag , '"' + pickImage(Dir["../assets/images/aspace_home/col-1/*.jpg"]) + '"', :alt => "Finding Aids Display Image" %> which just broke the page.</div>
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<div>Any guidance on how this works/if I'm even doing this right? I haven't found anything in archivesspace.out that indicates if what I'm doing is even being rendered; is there another log somewhere I can check?</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Maura Carbone
<div>Digital Initiatives Librarian<br>
Brandeis University<br>
Library and Technology Services<br>
(781) 736-4659<br>
415 South Street, (MS 017/P.O. Box 549110)<br>
Waltham, MA 02454-9110<br>
email: <a href="mailto:mauraa@brandeis.edu" target="_blank">mauraa@brandeis.edu</a><br>
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