All tests are now passing.
  The problem with messages was that I was redirecting to :new rather than a gathering the params data and going to the proper page associated with the two users
  I also changed the way I am testing profile photo upload. I removed the method default_profile_photo in the model that was checking the Rails.env.test? condition and moved that functionality into the feature test and factory
    For this reason I need to re-factor some views to enable the thumbnail images to display properly
Cleaned up test with better named variables
Fixed the thumbnail images in the message and profile views
  I did this by creating a slightly redundant looking method in the user model that takes an optional argument, but hay it is better than before by a long shot!
Removed redundant if conditional and li tags.
  Made a small change in the users profile to make it more concise and appealing
More model tests.