relative path issue (noob)

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Published on 2010-05-11T20:40:20Z Indexed on 2010/05/11 20:44 UTC
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I am using the following code to check existence of a file before publishing an image in my erb file.

<% @imagename = @place.name + ".jpg" %> 
<% if FileTest.exist?( "/Users/Tim/projects/game/public/" + @imagename ) %> 
<p><img src= '<%= @imagename %>' width="400" height="300" /> </p> 
<% end %>

And when I publish this to Heroku, it obviously wont work.

I tried using a relative path, but not able to get it to work. <% if FileTest.exist?( "/" + @imagename ) %>

any help appreciated.

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