On 3 August 2011 17:21, manavortex <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi group, > I have a problem with an image_tag. It's rather complicated and I > can't find an easy solution. > > I have a model called "Medium" which can hold a paperclip file > attachment or a remote url. I want to treat all media equally from my > view, so if I need a preview picture, I use get_picture(size). This > matches with paperclip's autogenerated thumbnails and everything is > fine. > > In case I have a youtube-video in my remote link, things are starting > to get ugly. Fortunately youtube autogenerates preview pictures from > the videos, and I am totally okay with these, the only problem is that > I can't resize them properly without busting my view. > > So what I need is a possibility to say my get_picture(size)-method > something like > > case size > when :large > return youtube_picture.png, size => "1000x1000" > when :small > return youtube_picture.png, size => "5x5" > end > > From the view, I want to call > > <%= image_tag medium.get_picture(:small) %> > and I don't want to pass in the parameter on view side, because that > would be very repetitive. > > My workaround was to make a method "get_size(size)", so that I can use > <%= image_tag medium.get_picture:small, :size => > medium.get_size(:small) %> > but that's ugly and there has to be a better way to do this.
Use a view helper to replace that code with a call to your helper <%= auto_size_image_tag( medium ) %> Colin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
