IZ MS trying again on fixing remote profile images

app/controllers/users_controller.rb

@@ -38,7 +38,19 @@ class UsersController < ApplicationController
 
   def update
     @user = User.find_by_id params[:id]
+    prep_image_url(params[:user])
+    
     @user.update_profile params[:user]
     respond_with(@user, :location => root_url)
   end
+
+  private
+
+  def prep_image_url(params)
+    if params[:profile][:image_url].empty?
+      params[:profile].delete(:image_url)
+    else 
+      params[:profile][:image_url] = "http://" + request.host + ":" + request.port.to_s + params[:profile][:image_url]
+    end
+  end
 end 

app/models/user.rb

@@ -213,8 +213,6 @@ class User
 
   ########### Profile ######################
   def update_profile(params)
-    params[:profile].delete(:image_url) if params[:profile][:image_url].empty?
-
     if self.person.update_attributes(params)
       push_to_aspects profile, :all
       true

app/views/users/edit.html.haml

@@ -35,11 +35,11 @@
       = p.hidden_field :image_url, :value => @profile.image_url, :id => 'image_url_field'
       - for photo in @photos
         - if photo.url(:thumb_medium) == @profile.image_url
-          %div.small_photo{:id => request.host + photo.url(:thumb_medium), :class=>'selected'}
+          %div.small_photo{:id => photo.url(:thumb_medium), :class=>'selected'}
             = check_box_tag 'checked_photo', true, true
             = link_to image_tag(photo.url(:thumb_medium)), "#"
         - else
-          %div.small_photo{:id => request.host + photo.url(:thumb_medium)}
+          %div.small_photo{:id => photo.url(:thumb_medium)}
             = check_box_tag 'checked_photo'
             = link_to image_tag(photo.url(:thumb_medium)), "#"
     =will_paginate @photos