Twitter Background Image

I've been using the twitter API and in chirps, I'd like to show user's background from twitter. The twitter api doesn't give this information. If the user chooses to hide the background image by selecting the "Don't use a background image" from the design settings, nothing is passed back through the Twitter API (yet - the fix is in the Twitter API V2 roadmap).

To get around this - I made a method for the User model that returns a boolean for "profile_background_image_display".


def profile_background_image_display
return is_theme? || has_custom_background?
end

def is_theme?
colors = %w(9AE4E8 C6E2EE EDECE9 0099B9 352726 709397 EBEBEB 8B542B 1A1B1F 642D8B FF6699 BADFCD)
images = (1..12).map{|i| "theme#{i}/bg.gif"}
for i in 0..11
if self.profile_background_image_url =~ Regexp.new(images.at(i)) && self.profile_background_color.downcase == colors.at(i).downcase
return true
end
end
if self.profile_background_image_url =~ /images\/bg.gif/ && self.profile_background_color == colors.at(0) # This is the default, not theme 1
return true
end
return false
end

def has_custom_background?
return !(self.profile_background_image_url =~ /theme\d+\/bg.gif/)
end


Note - this isn't perfect. This is where it breaks down:

• It will show a background image if the user sets a custom background image and hides it.
  
• It will show the background image if the user picks a theme and hides the background.
• It will hide the background image if the user uses a theme background on a custom color.

But those situations are rare, or usually look pretty good anyway. The main problem case - where the user picks a new background color and hides the bg image - is handled here.

That's the trade off.

Hope this is useful to someone - I'd love to know if you have a better solution.