LetterAvatar

Gem for creating letter avatar from user's name.

Code extracted from discourse source (thanks guys!)

Installation

System requirements

sudo apt-get install -y advancecomp gifsicle jhead jpegoptim libjpeg-progs optipng pngcrush pngquant

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'letter_avatar'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install letter_avatar

Configuration

LetterAvatar.setup do |config|
  config.cache_base_path='public/system/lets' # default is 'public/system'
end

Usage

LetterAvatar.generate 'ksz2k', 200
=> "public/system/letter_avatars/2/K/87_178_230/200.png"

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request