Upload test images using rake with populator

Rails
1

I am wondering if it is possible to upload test images to the database
along with the other fake user data. I am using populator along with
faker for fake test data and it is working very well. I am able to do
things like:

User.populate 100 do |user|
  user.username = Faker::Name.first_name
  user.email    = Faker::Internet.email

end

but I am wondering if theres a way to do something like:

User.populate 100 do |user|
  user.username = Faker::Name.first_name
  user.email    = Faker::Internet.email
 Photo.populate 1 do |photo|
   photo.user_id = user.id ....

end

I know this is not possible with populator, but maybe someone can
enlighten me with the direction towards a function I can write on my
own? I am using attachment_fu now, but I am looking to switch to
paperclip in the near future. Also if anyone has other methods
excluding rake tasks for doing this please let me know. thanks.

2

Just found this relevant code online. Gonna play around with this and
see where I get:

namespace :avatars do
  desc "Create initial avatar database."
  task :init => :environment do
    Dir.chdir("#{RAILS_ROOT}/public/avatars/")
    @image_paths = Dir["*.jpg"]
    for avatar in @image_paths
      path = "#{RAILS_ROOT}/public/avatars/#{avatar}"
      fsize = File.size(path)
      avatar = Avatar.create(:avatar_file_name =>

avatar, :avatar_content_type => ‘image/jpeg’, :avatar_file_size =>
fsize)
avatar.save
end
end
end