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== Welcome to Balder photo gallery
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Made by Espen Antonsen.
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Version 1.1
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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 2.3
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Software
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- RMagicK (required for Carrierwave resizing). Can also use ImageScience
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Optional:
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- ExifTool (required for Mini_EfixTool)
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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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Optional:
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- AWS/S3 (if saving to Amazon s3)
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- Mini_Exiftool (to read exif info to database. See photo.rb model)
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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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Gitorious: git clone git://gitorious.org/gallery-without-a-name/gallery-without-a-name.git
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2. install required software listed above
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3. Copy settings file:
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cp gallery/config/database.example.yml gallery/config/database.yml
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cp gallery/config/settings.example.yml gallery/config/settings.yml
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4. Create databsae user and edit settings files.
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5. rake db:create
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6. rake db:migrate
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7. 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 using Flash. 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
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In future releases the scan will be automated.
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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. |