如果在 Rackspace Cloudfiles 中删除图像，会出现默认图像？

Question

Wild question, but I need/want the ability to have a replacement image appear, using the same url to a cloudfiles image, incase that actual image can't be found.

So in an img tag on someone's blog it would point to an image i host. if the actual image isn't there anymore, instead of showing that annoying bordered img file that browser's do, i'd like to show another image.

In rails using paperclip, we can set a default image, but that is only if the field isn't populated yet. It's this thinking i'd like to replicate in real thug life.

thoughts?

Answer 1

I made a function similar to this for private branding. The user can upload their own logo to replace my website's logo. Whenever they go to website.com/theircompany it will show their logo and login information. I have it displaying their image instead of the server default by a simple If Then in the view. I look to see if that 'company' has an image uploaded. If it does then display their image. If it does not then display the server default.

UPDATE: Based on your comment below, I see where that can be an issue. If these images will be rather small (<1MB) could you store them in a database? That is how I'm currently handling the images on my server and it sounds like that could work for you. There is a modified Paperclip gem that will allow this. I have forked it since I know that this version works perfectly with my server and MySQL.

https://github.com/kobaltz/paperclip