== Welcome to Balder photo gallery Made by Espen Antonsen. Version 1.1 http://balderapp.com == Features * Stores photos to disk in folders or on S3 (can run from Heroku...yay) * 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) * Upload multiple photos * Tag photos. Can also tag albums (actually all photos in album is tagged) * User management with roles and permissions * Geo-location of albums & photos with Google Maps integration. == License Free for personal use. Contact me for commercial license. == Requirements Rails 2.3 Software - RMagicK (required for Carrierwave resizing). Can also use ImageScience Optional: - ExifTool (required for Mini_EfixTool) Ruby Gems - AuthLogic - Mime-Types - Carrierwave Optional: - AWS/S3 (if saving to Amazon s3) - Mini_Exiftool (to read exif info to database. See photo.rb model) == Installation 1. Clone the project from GitHub or Gitorious: GitHub: git clone git://github.com/espen/balder.git Gitorious: git clone git://gitorious.org/gallery-without-a-name/gallery-without-a-name.git 2. install required software listed above 3. Copy settings file: cp gallery/config/database.example.yml gallery/config/database.yml cp gallery/config/settings.example.yml gallery/config/settings.yml 4. Create databsae user and edit settings files. 5. rake db:create 6. rake db:migrate 7. Start up the project with your preferred web-server === Optional: add photos directly to disk The gallery has a web-based upload tool using Flash. Alternatively you can upload files directly by doing this: Put photos in containing folders(albums) in the specified gallery folder. Hierarchy of folders is not fully supported. This format is recommended: ./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 Every time you manually add photos to disk you must scan by visiting /photos/scan In future releases the scan will be automated. == Copyright and license info This code is copyrighted by Espen Antonsen. The source code is available free under the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3). If the GPLv3 is not suitable for you please contact me for an alternative license for a fee.