Try this:
def photo_from_url(url)
begin
if !Nokogiri::HTML(open(url)).css("meta[property='og:image']").blank?
photo_url = Nokogiri::HTML(open(url)).css("meta[property='og:image']").first.attributes["content"]
self.photo = URI.parse(photo_url)
self.save
end
rescue => e
puts "error"
end
end