# avatar_url does not function properly as it does not properly deal with scaling. # css based scaling is inefficient and has terrible results in both firefox and ie. canvas based scaling is slow. # # for local urls we need to upload an image and have a pointer to the upload, then use the upload id in the user table # for gravatar we already have the email and can hash it class DropAvatarUrlFromUsers < ActiveRecord::Migration def up remove_column :users, :avatar_url end def down add_column :users, :avatar_url, :string, null: false, default: '' end end