It's typical for Ruby on Rails application to store it's static resources in /public/images , /public/stylesheets, /public/javascript subirs. But all of them have the same beginning of URI: /assets/1.jpg /assets/1.css /assets/1.js.

How can I configure Nginx to properly serve such resources?

By using multiple location blocks.

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