app/models/actor.rb
class Actor < ActiveRecord::Base
# has_and_belongs_to_many :movies
has_many :actors_movies
has_many :movies, :through => :actors_movies
has_and_belongs_to_many :seedmovies
def get_image
if self.image_url.nil?
base_url="http://private-e8bc0-themoviedb.apiary-proxy.com/3/search/person?api_key="
key=ENV.fetch('TMDB_KEY')
search = self.name.gsub!(" ","+") || self.name
url = base_url + key + "&query=" + search
results = HTTParty.get(url)
profile_path=results["results"][0]["profile_path"]
self.image_url = "http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500" + profile_path
self.save
end
self.image_url
end
end