From: Sarah Tanembaum <sarahtanembaum@...>
Date: 2004-12-23T01:32:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there any ruby compatible graphics/imaging utilities ...

Kaspar Schiess wrote:
> Hello Sarah, 
> 
> 
>>Any suggestion.
> 
> 
> I would suggest then you have a good look at what exists already. From my 
> own experiments, I know about a good 20 such applications, both native 
> (Windows, Linux) and Web based. They are mostly free (or at very little 
> charge) and provide you with proprietary databases that are optimized for 
> photo storage, sometimes just using Mysql as a backend. 
> 
> What you describe is a rather big project (if entertaken seriously) and I 
> don't see why you would launch yourself into such a thing when you can just 
> download and install. 
> 
> Of course, if you are just looking for a project to start some serious Ruby 
> programming with, this is it. You might want to sketch all of that down and 
> start doing examples with all the libraries involved, so as to get a 'feel 
> for the turf'. Ruby is a good language for such a task. 
> 
> best of luck, 
> kaspar
> 
> hand manufactured code - www.tua.ch/ruby
> 
> 
> 
Hi Kaspar, I'm trying to start by doing easy, step-by-step real world 
apps. And the family photo seems a simple enough apps(not too many code 
lines, I hope) but interesting where you can see the result and share it 
with the family, while learning the language.

I'd hope that perhaps Rails will pick it up and develop some step by 
step guide in building photo cataloging, well perhaps start with the 
simple functionalities and as one progress, one can add more features 
such as image manipulation, editing the info, etc ...

Thanks