Generating Paperclip image uploads with fake data - Ruby on Rails Populator / Faker Gems

Question

I am currently trying to populate a development database on a project with a bunch of fake data, to simulate how it will look and operate with hundreds of articles / users. I lo

Answer 1

To associate a random image in your task, you could try the following:

user.avatar = File.open(Dir.glob(File.join(Rails.root, 'sampleimages', '*')).sample)

where sampleimages is a directory containing avatars to be associated at random