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Ruby

Brandon Barrette
Brandon Barrette
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Posted by Brandon Barrette
Brandon Barrette
20,485 Points

Add default profile pic instead of Gravatar

So if you want to have your users have a default profile pic instead of using gravatar, you can change the following code:

def avatar_profile_link(user, image_options={}, html_options={})
    avatar_url = user.avatar? ? user.avatar.url : user.gravatar_url
    link_to(image_tag(avatar_url, image_options), profile_path(user.profile_name), html_options)
end

to this

def avatar_profile_link(user, image_options={}, html_options={})
    avatar_url = user.avatar? ? user.avatar.url : "avatardefault.png"
    link_to(image_tag(avatar_url, image_options), profile_path(user.profile_name), html_options)
end

Notice I just removed the gravatar path and added the file "avatardefualt.png". Put this default profile pic file in your assets/images folder and rails knows to look for it there.

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