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== Welcome to Balder photo gallery
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Made by Espen Antonsen.
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Version 1.2.1 for Rails3. See the rails2 branch for previous version.
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http://balderapp.com
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== Features
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* Stores photos to disk in folders or on S3 (can run from Heroku...yay)
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* Create multiple thumbnails of custom sizes
* Read and writes EXIF/IPTC title, description and keywords
* Organize in albums (as events in iPhoto)
* Combine albums in collections (as albums in iPhoto)
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* Upload multiple photos
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* Tag photos. Can also tag albums (actually all photos in album is tagged)
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* User management with roles and permissions
* Geo-location of albums & photos with Google Maps integration.
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== Requirements
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Rails 3.0
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Software
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Default:
- ExifTool (required for Mini_EfixTool). Can be disabled. Default is to read EXIF tags but not write them to the file when database is updated as writing EXIF is slow. To enable just uncomment exif_write in photo.rb
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Can be installed from: http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
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- ImageMagicK. Carrierwave can use either RMagicK or MiniMagicK (default). To change resize option the correct gem must be used (specified in Gemfile) and change included setting for Carrierwave in file_uploader.rb
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Can be installed from: http://www.imagemagick.org
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Optional:
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- ImageScience which requires FreeImage. Can be installed from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeimage/
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Ruby Gems: See Gemfile
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== Configuration
config/balder.rb has the following adjustable settings:
STORAGE_PATH Relative path to where the photos are stored. Default: uploads
Under the specified path two folders are used. "files" for original files and "thumbs" for generated thumbnails.
This can be adjusted in app/uploaders/file_uploader.rb
PRIVATE Require visitors to have a user and authenticate before viewing photos.
TITLE Title of site
HEROKU To be used on heroku.com. This will adjust carrierwave to save to Heroku's tmp area.
S3_KEY For saving files to Amazon S3 (required for Heroku)
S3_SECRET For saving files to Amazon S3 (required for Heroku)
S3_BUCKET For saving files to Amazon S3 (required for Heroku)
As these are environment variables you can easily add them to Heroku:
http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/config-vars#rack_env_rails_env_merb_env
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For a brief introduction to how to set up Balder on Heroku see:
http://blog.inspired.no/rails-photo-gallery-balder-on-heroku-and-s3-726
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== Installation
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1. Clone the project from GitHub or Gitorious:
GitHub: git clone git://github.com/espen/balder.git
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2. Install required software listed above
3. 'bundle install' to install required gems.
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4. Adjust the settings in balder.rb (See configuration above)
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5. Copy database file (not needed when hosting on Heroku):
cp config/database.example.yml config/database.yml
6. Create database user and edit database file. (unless on Heroku or using SQLite3)
7. rake db:create
8. rake db:migrate
9. Start up the project with your preferred web-server
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=== Optional: add photos directly to disk
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The gallery has a web-based upload tool. Alternatively you can upload files directly to the upload folder. This means you can import an existing folder based photo collection to Balder.
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Put photos in containing folders(albums) in the specified gallery folder.
Hierarchy of folders is not fully supported.
This format is recommended:
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./ski weekend in hemsedal/snow.jpg
./ski weekend in hemsedal/afterski.jpg
./trip to iran/beautiful girls in tehran.jpg
./trip to iran/mosque in yazd.jpg
./trip to iran/powder snow in dizin.jpg
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Every time you manually add photos to disk you must scan by visiting /photos/scan or run ScanFiles.Scan(false) from the console.
== Version history
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1.2.1
- Using plupupload instead of uploadify for non-flash upload options. Can now use html5, normal form, silverlight, gears and browserplus for photo upload.
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1.2.0
- New storage path: "/uploads/files/" instead of "/uploads/". Make sure you move your photos or adjust the storage path.
== TODO
- Testing...
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== IDEAS
- Themes
- Improved UX
- Mobile/Tablet friendly display using CSS media queries
Patches welcome!
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== Copyright and license info
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This code is copyrighted by Espen Antonsen. The source code is available free under the MIT License.
