Photo Gallery Apps
Posted by Doug Wed, 14 Sep 2005 14:04:15 GMT
I’d like to get a peek at all the folks working on photo gallery apps in Rails. Mail messages show up on the mailing list fairly frequently related to image handling and cataloging. I also see comments about it on IRC as well. What I don’t see is anything closed to finished and available as free software.
I’m very interested in DAM. I don’t want a “Flickr Killer”, but just something for me to self-host, manage all my photos, and still make it easy and enjoyable for friends and family to browse.
I’ve started a Photo App on the Rails wiki where I hope to at least get a list of folks who are willing to admit they are working on a photo gallery, are willing to share their code, and are willing to accept help from others.
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http://gallery.menalto.com/
Yea, I’m well aware of the PHP Gallery and that they have released 2.0. That’s not really what I want for a couple reasons:
1. I frankly don’t trust PHP. PHP apps as a whole make up probably the biggest source of bugs reported on bugtraq. Even more than Microsoft these days.
2. A PHP app won’t integrate nicely with the rest of my site as a Rails app. Ideally I’d like my site to be one big Rails app fully integrated. That’s the direction I’m moving and PHP doesn’t fit into that.
Maybe this is a “Not Invented Here” problem, but I’m committed to Rails.
But thanks for reading and leaving feedback!
Hello Mr.Doug i wanted to develop a photo album in rails.. i am going through the code of rgallery(http://rgallery.dk), i don’t have much experience working in rubyonrails,i just started with it.coming to the rgallery , i didn’t like the functionality much, because it doesn’t have any upload images..the only way we can upload pictures store them in one folder and in config give the directory path and a script runs through the directory stores the pictures in database. I read through the your document http://www.lathi.net/twiki-bin/view/Main/PhotoDepot for the iteration one.. features.. rgallery has most of the features implemented , except that they follow different way of uploading images. anyways as i also want to develop a photo-album, if you want to share the code that would be a great help ..
Hallo. Very nice picturegallery you got here. Is it eritten in ASP? Do you sell the product?
Kind: Stellan
I mention more details about my photo gallery here:
http://blog.lathi.net/articles/2005/09/13/photo-gallery-layout-update
Basically, it’s running the free Apache::Gallery. It’s written in Perl.
To Harsha, I appologize; as much as I want a good photo gallery in Rails, I just don’t have time to implement it right now. I’ve got several other projects going on and I can’t squeeze a gallery in. If you want, you can follow my blog. At some point I’ll make a decision about what to do and I’ll comment here.