Unable To Access Public Images Possible Routing Issue - ruby-on-rails

Question

I'm working on a project and trying to render some images sitting under the public directory in one of my show views. I'm able to access these images just fine on my index view, but it's not quite so easy for show views it would seem.
So lets say in my view I have something like the following:
<%= "<img src=\"images/16x16/actions/filesave.png\" class=\"icon" title=\"save\">"%>
This would work in my index view perfectly fine, but for some strange reason I get this routing error in my show view:
ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [GET]
"/uploads/images/16x16/actions/filesave.png"):
I noticed that for some peculiar reason it's injecting the "/uploads/" route right before the "/images..." this is the cause of my problem and I can't figure out why or how to stop it. This only happens with my show views.
Now there's a lot going on in my routes.rb file, I know it's ugly but I do plan on going in there and cleaning it up when I get the chance.
resources :upload_images
get "upload_image/new"
get "upload_image/index"
get "upload_image/show"
get "upload_image/delete"
resources :help_categories
resources :global_configs
resources :competitions
match '/teams/register', :controller => 'teams', :action => 'register'
match '/teams/invite_users', :controller => 'teams', :action => 'invite_users'
match '/teams/view_invitations', :controller => 'teams', :action => 'view_invitations'
match '/teams/ignore', :controller => 'teams', :action => 'ignore'
match '/teams/leave_team', :controller => 'teams', :action => 'leave_team'
resources :teams
resources :competitions do
resources :matches
end
resources :registers
resources :players do
collection do
post :edit_individual
put :update_individual
get :results
end
end
resources :tournaments
resources :matches
resources :upload_categories
resources :uploads, :except => [:new]
match '/download/:id' => 'uploads#download'
devise_for :users do
match 'logout' => 'devise/sessions#destroy'
end
resources :users, :except => [:new] do
member do
get 'upload_files'
get 'delete_files'
end
end
resources :games
devise_for :videolinks
resources :topics do
collection do
get "mark_all_viewed"
end
member do
get 'show_new'
end
end
resources :posts do
member do
get 'quote'
get 'topic'
end
end
resources :forums do
member do
get 'confirm_delete'
end
end
resources :blog_entries, :except => [:index]
resources :categories
resources :videolinks
resources :competition_games
resources :competitions
resources :news
resources :events
match 'uploads/find_uploads' => 'uploads#find_uploads'
match 'uploads/add_upload_image' => 'uploads#add_upload_image'
match 'forum_root' => 'forums#index'
match 'upload_root' => 'uploads#index'
match 'user' => 'forums#index'
match 'news_root' => 'news#index'
match 'topic_post' => 'forums#index'
match 'quote_post' => 'forums#index'
match 'new_upload' => 'forums#index'
match 'videolinks/:id', :to => 'videolinks#show'
match 'register' => 'users#sign_up'
match 'login' => 'users#sign_in'
match 'users/find_users' => 'users#find_users'
match '/users/get_states/:country' => 'users#states'
match '/ban/:username' => 'users#ban'
match '/ban_user/:username' => 'users#ban_user'
match ':username' => 'users#show'
match ':username/edit' => 'users#edit'
match ':username/delete_files_all' => 'uploads#index'
match ':username/delete_files' => 'users#delete_files'
match ':username/upload_files' => 'users#upload_files'
match ':username/password/edit' => 'users#editpass'
match ':username/edit_file/:id' => 'uploads#edit'
match '/maketakeadmin/:username' => 'users#maketakeadmin'
match ':username/destroy' => 'users#destroy'
root :to => "home#index"
resources :categories do
member do
get 'confirm_delete'
end
end
Another developer worked on the upload section of this application and it uses paperclip. By default it saves uploads in the public directory and we didn't want that so he told me he did some weird hotfix to save uploads to a private directory off of the root of the application called "uploads". Not sure if this might have anything to do with it.

Answer 1

Needed a forward slash at the start of the path.

Answer 2

I think you should use something like this:
<%= image_tag "/images/16x16/actions/filesave.png", class: "icon", alt: "save" %>