Ah, definitely thinking along the right lines... then I'd just have to
figure out some way to determine if the file actually existed on the
machine or not. Which could probably be done, if not super
efficiently.
I'll keep this in mind as a potential solution, thanks for your idea.
If anyone else has any other ideas, I'd be open to those as well.
Thanks,
Bill
On Jan 27, 10:58 pm, "s.ross" <cwdi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Write a helper that wraps image_tag that checks to see whether you are
> on your production box. Iff you are on the production box, then
> image_tag it is, otherwise, some placeholder image guaranteed to be
> local in your images dir.
>
> Will that work?
>
> On Jan 27, 2009, at 10:27 PM, william.hard...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>
>
> > My development setup gets its data from our production database, and
> > this production database refers to a bunch of images that aren't
> > available on my local machine, thus when running development I get a
> > large number of Rails RoutingErrors, which I don't really mind.
>
> > What I *do* mind is that catching every one of these errors takes
> > about 2-4 seconds, even with my quad-core desktop. If I try to load a
> > page with 5 missing images, it will probably be 20 seconds before I
> > can visit another page.
>
> > Has anyone else experienced this and thought up a clever workaround?
> > I had hoped that using
>
> > rescue_from(ActionController::RoutingError) { |e| render :nothing =>
> > true }
>
> > in my application controller would fix it, but it just serves to make
> > the exception not print out its text. It still takes the regular
> > amount of time per image for the exception to be caught and ignored.
>
> > Thank you greatly for any insights into how I might improve this.
> > Bill
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