Its very easy to add emoji icons/images to your rails application. It seems complex but its all easy using javascript.The steps can be simplified as shown below:- add the javascript(download jemotion ) include it in your view file(where you want :) to be shown as this -----------------------> thats it....done first you need to add this wonderful js which works really great and nice from home page . We are interested in only the js and emotions folder(containing the smileys/GIF images). once you download just include it in your view file and copy/dump the emotions folder(containing images) to app/assets/images for RAILS 3+. as i did where i want the users to view their comments after they submit their comment. You also need to give a unique id to make the js understand where it needs to convert your symbols to icons.see below code and hope you will understand how to use it. Keep in mind two thing:- dont forget to gi
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