Yeah so instead of having a controller and a view, you have a controller and a separate formatter class which looks like this: module ViewHelpers def grav

Yeah so instead of having a controller and a view, you have a controller and a separate formatter class which looks like this: module ViewHelpers def gravatar gravatar_id = Digest::MD5.hexdigest(self[:email].to_s.strip.downcase) gravatar_for_id(gravatar_id) end def gravatar_for_id(gid, size = 30) "#{gravatar_host}/avatar/#{gid}?s=#{size}" end def gravatar_host @ssl ? 'https://secure.gravatar.com' : 'http://www.gravatar.com' end end I argue this will get extremely tiresome for large websites.