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== Welcome to Balder photo gallery
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Made by Espen Antonsen.
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Version 1.2.0 for Rails3
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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
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* Read and writes EXIF/IPTC title, description and keywords
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* Organize in albums (as events in iPhoto)
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* 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
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* Geo-location of albums & photos with Google Maps integration.
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== License
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Free for personal use. Contact me for commercial license.
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== Requirements
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Rails 3.0
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Software
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- ImageMagicK (required for Carrierwave resizing). Can also use ImageScience and MiniMagick
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- ExifTool (required for Mini_EfixTool). Can be disabled.
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Ruby Gems
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- AuthLogic
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- Mime-Types
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- Carrierwave
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- Mini_Exiftool (to read exif info to database and write exif to original file. See photo.rb model). Can be disabled.
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Optional:
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- AWS/S3 (if saving to Amazon s3)
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== Configuration
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config/balder.rb has the following adjustable settings:
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STORAGE_PATH Relative path to where the photos are stored. Default: uploads
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Under the specified path two folders are used. "files" for original files and "thumbs" for generated thumbnails.
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This can be adjusted in app/uploaders/file_uploader.rb
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PRIVATE Require visitors to have a user and authenticate before viewing photos.
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TITLE Title of site
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HEROKU To be used on heroku.com. This will adjust carrierwave to save to Heroku's tmp area.
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S3_KEY For saving files to Amazon S3 (required for Heroku)
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S3_SECRET For saving files to Amazon S3 (required for Heroku)
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S3_BUCKET For saving files to Amazon S3 (required for Heroku)
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As these are environment variables you can easily add them to Heroku:
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http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/config-vars#rack_env_rails_env_merb_env
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== Installation
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1. Clone the project from GitHub or Gitorious:
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GitHub: git clone git://github.com/espen/balder.git
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2. Install required software listed above
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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):
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cp config/database.example.yml config/database.yml
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6. Create database user and edit database file. (unless on Heroku or using SQLite3)
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7. rake db:create
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8. rake db:migrate
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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 by doing this:
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Put photos in containing folders(albums) in the specified gallery folder.
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Hierarchy of folders is not fully supported.
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This format is recommended:
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./ski weekend in hemsedal/snow.jpg
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./ski weekend in hemsedal/afterski.jpg
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./trip to iran/beautiful girls in tehran.jpg
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./trip to iran/mosque in yazd.jpg
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./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.
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== Version history
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1.2.0
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- New storage path: "/uploads/files/" instead of "/uploads/". Make sure you move your photos or adjust the storage path.
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== TODO
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- Testing...
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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 GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3).
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If the GPLv3 is not suitable for you please contact me for an alternative license for a fee. |