Rails - Aug 2009 - Provide missing image

Hi

I have an application where people can upload avatar-like images to
the site. When I show the images I want to show a placeholder image if
no image has been uploaded for that user.

I was thinking of overloading the image_tag helper to check for
existance and provide :default => "path/to/default/image" for the
image to show in case the primary one does not exist.

So my questions are: Has anyone done something similar before and if
so is there a gem or similar for public use?

Thanks in advance

Erik Lindblad

Asked and answered. Looked through the Paperclip source and found the
default_url parameter. Thanks to Thoughtbot :-)

/Erik



On 2 Aug, 19:52, Erik Lindblad <e...-gTO0lQh45js@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have an application where people can upload avatar-like images to
> the site. When I show the images I want to show a placeholder image if
> no image has been uploaded for that user.
>
> I was thinking of overloading the image_tag helper to check for
> existance and provide :default => "path/to/default/image" for
the
> image to show in case the primary one does not exist.
>
> So my questions are: Has anyone done something similar before and if
> so is there a gem or similar for public use?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> ErikLindblad