CSS style sheets should be put in the _public/stylesheets_ directory of your Rails application. 

Let's assume you have a stylesheet called _cookbook.css_, located at public/stylesheets/cookbook.css

There are two ways to include it in your rhtml:

# Using normal HTML, like so: 
<pre><code><link rel="Stylesheet" href="/stylesheets/cookbook.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /></code></pre>

Or if you wanted to hide the stylesheet from Netscape 4: 

<pre><code><style type="text/css" media="screen">
  @import url(/stylesheets/cookbook.css);
</style></code></pre>

# Using rails code, like so:
 <pre><code><%= stylesheet_link_tag "cookbook" %></code></pre>

This will render HTML code to the page similar to above automatically. You don't need to add the _.css_ at the end of the file name, Rails knows which file type it is! Note that it's shorter to include a stylesheet in your rhtml page this way!


For more information, read "AssetTagHelper":http://rails.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionView/Helpers/AssetTagHelper.html#M000305