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

One way I get around this is to put a conditional in my views.

Let's say your model is "user", and it has an avatar. Then you can do the following:

<% if product.avatar.exists? %>
  ... show the attached photo
<% else %>
  .. show a default photo
<% end %>

This works for me with Paperclip, and I use it in my dev database all the time rather than worrying about having all the image attached to all the users.

Answer 2

user.avatar = File.open(Dir['app/assets/images/*.jpg'].sample)

Answer 3

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