trouble displaying multiple embedded images

[TotallyInfected]

Hi,

I am trying to display a gallery of images sourced from flickr (or wherever). The URLs are stored in the database and called as either a single image along with other entered info or as a group for gallery purposes.

I have the individual image view going fine with:
<img src="<%=h @piece.image_url -%>" alt="<%=h @piece.piece_title -%>" />

but, trying to get the gallery to show up, I first tried:
<codee>
<% for piece in @pieces -%>
<%= link_to image_tag("@piece.image_url", :border=>0), :action => 'show', :id => piece %>
<% end %>
<%= will_paginate @pieces %>
</code>
and only see little question mark place holders and the paginated 'footer' - since I really wanted thumbnails though, I tried:
<codee>
<% for piece in @pieces -%>
<%= "<img src=(h @piece.image_url) width=20% height=20% />" %>
<% end %>
<%= will_paginate @pieces %>
</codee>
and it gives me correctly sized boxes with the little question marks and the paginated 'footer' but also when I navigate to another page, say 2, it doesn't make page 1 or 'previous' a navigable link.

I'm wondering if I have to preload the images into cache, but how?

Any suggestions?
Thanks

[Fenrir2]

The error in your first code snippet is the quotation marks around @piece.image_url. Fix: remove the quotation marks.

The error in your second snippet is that you're just outputting the string "<img src=(h @piece.image_url) width=20&#37; height=20% />". So you're not executing (h @piece.image_url). Fix: Remove <%= %> around the string and put <%= %> inside the img tag like this:

<img src=<%=h @piece.image_url %> width=20% height=20% />

(note that this does not link to the image)

The solution that I like most is using the image_tag helper (your first snippet):

<% for piece in @pieces -%>
<%= link_to image_tag(@piece.image_url, :size => "100x100", :border=>0), :action => 'show', :id => piece %>
<% end %>

[TotallyInfected]

okay, thanks for that... even though I couldn't get yours to work as is, I nixed the @ and it's fine... thanks