add picture to stroy in project new
had touble getting story into project but realized I was not adding story from jbuilder but just its attrs
fixed my picture problem. had a 404 error with the picture url auto sending to a missing route. in jbuilder I had to just change my association call from @user.pictures.first to @user.pictures.last
still having problems with pictures on my projects. I think its a problem with the handler function in the view. it seems like I may not be setting the model right