diff --git a/spec/factories/articles.rb b/spec/factories/articles.rb
index 0b76e1d7f..adb2701bb 100644
--- a/spec/factories/articles.rb
+++ b/spec/factories/articles.rb
@@ -23,7 +23,11 @@ FactoryBot.define do
     co_author_ids { [] }
     association :user, factory: :user, strategy: :create
     description { Faker::Hipster.paragraph(sentence_count: 1)[0..100] }
-    main_image    { with_main_image ? Faker::Avatar.image : nil }
+    main_image    do
+      if with_main_image
+        URL.url(ActionController::Base.helpers.asset_path("#{rand(1..40)}.png"))
+      end
+    end
     experience_level_rating { rand(4..6) }
     body_markdown do
       <<~HEREDOC
diff --git a/spec/view_objects/cloud_cover_url_spec.rb b/spec/view_objects/cloud_cover_url_spec.rb
index 0a67cc9fd..b821eeb11 100644
--- a/spec/view_objects/cloud_cover_url_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/view_objects/cloud_cover_url_spec.rb
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 require "rails_helper"
 
 RSpec.describe CloudCoverUrl, type: :view_object, cloudinary: true do
-  let(:article) { create(:article) }
+  let(:article) { create(:article, main_image: "https://robohash.org/articlefactory.png") }
   let(:cloudinary_prefix) { "https://res.cloudinary.com/#{Cloudinary.config.cloud_name}/image/fetch/" }
 
   it "returns proper url" do