You can include files from app/assets or from the public folder with javascript_include_tag. The subtle difference that tells rails how to build the path correctly is a single slash at the beginning of the path:

<%= javascript_include_tag('ckeditor/config') %> # for assets/ckeditor/config.js
<%= javascript_include_tag('/ckeditor/ckeditor') %> # for public/ckeditor/ckeditor.js

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This also applies to stylesheet_link_tag.

Note that when you refer to a Javascript or stylesheet in /assets you need to add it to the list of assets that Rails will precompile.