From: Sarah Tanembaum <sarahtanembaum@...>
Date: 2004-12-23T01:27:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there any ruby compatible graphics/imaging utilities ...

Chris Pine wrote:
> Sarah Tanembaum wrote:
> 
>> Thanks Kaspar. This is what I have. I have thousands of pictures that 
>> I took over time using digital cameras as well as old photos that I 
>> scanned. I'd like to create an application that I can use it using the 
>> web as well as on the native environment(Windows, Linux, Solaris) for 
>> cataloging.
> 
> 
> We did something similar:
>   http://pine.fm/FamilyPictures/
> 
> Is this sort of what you want, because I could just give you the code if 
> it suits your needs.
> 
> I'm not using a database, just the normal file system (in this case 
> ReiserFS, if you care).  Pages are generated by a ruby CGI program 
> called by Apache2.  Image resizing is done with RMagick/ImageMagick. The 
> info for each picture is stored in one huge Ruby hash (of hashes). It's 
> all very low-tech, but works well.  The pages take a few seconds to 
> load; that's the load time for the gigantic hash I mentioned.  (I will 
> probably set up a dRB server to hold the hash data for me, so I can get 
> rid of that load time... when I get around to it.  :)
> 
> There's also an "admin" page for telling us about errors or 
> discrepancies in our picture data, which you might not see.
> 
> Finally, I wrote another program to download all of the pictures off of 
> our camera's memory card, extract the time the pictures were taken, and 
> generate some fill-in-the-blank Ruby code for adding the pictures to the 
> huge picture_info hash.
> 
> Like I said, it's low-tech, but it works.
> 
> Oh, and if you are looking for a Ruby tutorial, you might want to check 
> mine out:
>   http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/
> 
> It's assuming no previous programming experience, so depending on where 
> you're coming from, it might be a bit slow.  But just in case you might 
> find it helpful, I just thought I'd mention it.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
Hi Chris, if you would not mind, I'd love to see how you do it - I hope 
its simple enough for me to learn from it and perhaps put the info in 
the database once I know how it works with Ruby/Apache.

Thanks