UiFaces

This gem uses UIfaces.com ( https://www.uifaces.com/ ) to fake user pictures on your app. You would like to use real user images for your app. This gem might be right you need. All the images comes from the 'authorized' section from uifaces and all images are real Twitter users images or avatar that previously agreeded to share their images.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'ui_faces'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install ui_faces

Usage

#####RETRIEVE A RANDOM USER

link = UiFaces.face
puts link
=> https://s3.amazonaws.com/uifaces/faces/twitter/guinslym/128.jpg

#####FIND A SPECIFIC USER

link = UiFaces.face(true, 'larrygerard')
puts link
=> https://s3.amazonaws.com/uifaces/faces/twitter/larrygerard/128.jpg

#####RETRIEVE A USER BY GENRE

link = UiFaces.sex('woman')
woman = UiFaces.woman
man = UiFaces.man

#####RETRIEVE A HASH with different pictures size

link = UiFaces.faces
puts link
=> {
:bigger=>"https://s3.amazonaws.com/uifaces/faces/twitter/guiiipontes/73.jpg", 
:normal=>"https://s3.amazonaws.com/uifaces/faces/twitter/guiiipontes/48.jpg", 
:epic=>"https://s3.amazonaws.com/uifaces/faces/twitter/guiiipontes/128.jpg", 
:mini=>"https://s3.amazonaws.com/uifaces/faces/twitter/guiiipontes/24.jpg"
}
puts link[:bigger]
=> https://s3.amazonaws.com/uifaces/faces/twitter/guiiipontes/73.jpg

SPECIFYING the image size

link = UiFaces.face(false, 'random', 'normal')
=> https://s3.amazonaws.com/uifaces/faces/twitter/anton0kurilov/48.jpg

RUBY ON RAILS

#db/seeds.rb
#I'm using the gem 'faker' for the name
10.times do 
	Employee.find_or_create_by(
	:name  => Faker::Name.name.to_s,
	:image => UiFaces.face
	)
end

#app/view/employees/show.html
<%= image_tag @employee.image, class: "yourclass" %>

#<!-- or within a link -->
<%= link_to href: 'http://uifaces.com/guinslym' do %>
    <%= image_tag @employee.image,  alt: 'a face that is unnervingly happy'%>
<% end %>

Contributing

Star it :)
Fork it ( https://github.com/guinslym/Uifaces/fork )
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
Test it
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
Create a new Pull Request