Inline SVG for Rails

inline_svg_helper.rb

# Put this method in your helper file to render inline SVG

def inline_svg(path)
  file = File.open("app/assets/images/#{path}", "rb")
  raw file.read
end

This is extremely helpful sir, thank you very much.

Thanks for the snippet, it is good practice to close a file after you use it. I would therefore use the block form of File#open so that the file automatically get's closed after we read from it:

def inline_svg(path)
    File.open("app/assets/images/#{path}", "rb") do |file|
    raw file.read
  end
end

Instead of hard coding the path to app/assets/images I suggest to let the asset pipeline manage the file location. Use Rails.application.assets.find_asset(path).to_s instead of reading the file directly.

Combining all this, I added this to my application helper:

  def inline_svg(path)
    raw Rails.application.assets.find_asset(path + '.svg').to_s
  end

Rails.application.assets became nil when config.assets.compile = false on production. Does it matter?

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