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Eyelook: Rails photo gallery

Peter Donald — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 14:55:00 +1000

Eyelook is a photo gallery I created over a weekend when I was home sick. It is amazing how productive rails can make you because within 8 hours I had the code in place and had set it up on my personal web server.

Very little of that time was spent coding – most of it was spent working on re-arranging the xhtml+css or figuring out how to go about Loading Binary Data into Rails Fixtures.

Every eyelook application has a set of users who have a list of albums with pictures. The image data is stored in the database and cached on the filesystem on demand. This way a backup of the database backs up the complete system.

An example of users page that lists galleries is

You can select one of these galleries and it will bring up a list of images such as

From there you can either download the original or can view a larger lightbox style image

The admin section is not as sexy but it is functional.

You can grab the source from subversion via the following command. Read the README.txt for installation instructions.

svn co http://www.realityforge.org/svn/code/eyelook/trunk eyelook

"Eyelook: Rails photo gallery" by anon

Wed, 03 May 2006 08:29:09 +1000

Thanks.

"Eyelook: Rails photo gallery" by Peter Donald

Sat, 29 Apr 2006 20:53:24 +1000

There is no sql file. You create the database in step 3 by doing “rake migrate” which creates the database using rails migrations.

"Eyelook: Rails photo gallery" by eyelook.sql ???

Sat, 29 Apr 2006 01:26:18 +1000

where is the eyelook.sql file ???, ..

"Eyelook: Rails photo gallery" by Lucian

Wed, 26 Apr 2006 21:04:07 +1000

Just a note: If you’re using MySQL, i think it requires subselects, so needs to be > version 4.1 IIRC.

"Eyelook: Rails photo gallery" by Peter Donald

Tue, 25 Apr 2006 03:00:57 +1000

Fixed.

"Eyelook: Rails photo gallery" by Dave Lehman

Tue, 25 Apr 2006 01:42:08 +1000

Just a quick note on installation. Step three involves firing up the console (rather than a server) to add a new user.

  ruby script/console
  User.create!(:name => 'myname', :password => 'mypwd')

Also, step 4 has a typo for the start server line. Should be:

  ruby script/server

Thanks for releasing your source! Looking forward to perusing it tonight.

"Eyelook: Rails photo gallery" by Peter Donald

Mon, 24 Apr 2006 08:47:18 +1000

Unfortunately there is no public demo. I may try to put one up over next week.

"Eyelook: Rails photo gallery" by John Engler

Sun, 23 Apr 2006 04:42:50 +1000

got a link to see the gallery in practice?