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Right, though I think I was more hesitant on upgrading to Cedar--probably could have done that without any problems, but ultimately I just didn't like 3.1rc. My major gripe was with the assets pipeline.

Edit: are images not supposed to be served through /assets? They were loading too slowly for me, that was my major complaint.

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No, images are not supposed to be served through /assets. Put them in /public.

rake assets:precompile will automatically copy images from app/assets/images to public/assets.

The asset pipeline can be a development concern only, if you want it to.

I love the 3.1 rcs but using 3rd party css files that reference images are kind of painful to deal with in conjunction with the asset pipeline. I find myself making awkward directory structures in the vendor directory to avoid making modifications to 3rd party css libraries (like jQuery UI). I'm hoping a lot of this will go away when those things are packed into gems that I can just put in my Gemfile and forget. I'm sure Compass and Blueprint will get to that point pretty quickly but I'm not sure that something custom-generated like by jQuery UI ThemeRoller will ever be smooth to set up.

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