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Kelvin Liebertz
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Hey guys, I am currently watching the rails tutorials on how to set up avatars via paperclip. Now Jason uses Gravatar as an alternate to show images if a user has not uploaded one yet. I don't want to use gravatar but a default "missing.png" to show up. I've got the helper method from the tutorial and changed the gravatar tag with me default_url tag, but nothing happens:
def avatar_profile_link(user, image_options={}, html_options={})
avatar_url = user.avatar? ? user.avatar.url(:thumb) : user.avatar.url(:default_url)
link_to(image_tag(avatar_url, image_options), userpage_path(user.username), html_options)
end
In my paperclip styles I have :default_url => "missing.png" and pasted the png into my assets/images folder. Any idea what I have done wrong?
greetz
1 Answer
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest TeacherHey Kelvin Liebertz you may need to specify a full path to the "missing.png" file, such as /assets/missing.png.