Open source Ruby on Rails photo gallery
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== Welcome to Balder photo gallery Made by Espen Antonsen. Version 1.2.0 for Rails3 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 3.0 Software - ImageMagicK (required for Carrierwave resizing). Can also use ImageScience and MiniMagick - ExifTool (required for Mini_EfixTool). Can be disabled. Ruby Gems - AuthLogic - Mime-Types - Carrierwave - Mini_Exiftool (to read exif info to database and write exif to original file. See photo.rb model). Can be disabled. Optional: - AWS/S3 (if saving to Amazon s3) == 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 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 == Installation 1. Clone the project from GitHub or Gitorious: GitHub: git clone git://github.com/espen/balder.git 2. Install required software listed above 3. 'bundle install' to install required gems. 4. Adjust the settings in balder.rb (See configuration above) 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 === Optional: add photos directly to disk The gallery has a web-based upload tool. 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 or run ScanFiles.Scan(false) from the console. == Version history 1.2.0 - New storage path: "/uploads/files/" instead of "/uploads/". Make sure you move your photos or adjust the storage path. == TODO - Testing... == 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.