Extremely Simple Photo Album in Rails
I had looked at Gullery, WebAlbum and Photo Album in Ajax on Rails books among others.
I will show you how to create a photo album with slide show in a RESTful way. I will include the source code as part of the download.
Exercise
- You can extend this album so that the photo upload does not tie up the Mongrel process by using Background DRB, Merb etc.
- Add the feature where users can only add/edit photos to their album.
- When a photo is added instead of displaying the album index page, display the album show page so that users can continue uploading photos.
Resources
File uploads via Merb inside a Rails application
User Feedback
It seems you didn't copy the slider.js and sound.js files into the javascripts directory for the simple photo album and that is causing 2 errors to be thrown into the log. I'm not sure where you are using scriptaculous, as I was able to just remove that include line and everything still seemed to be working, but since I assume there is a reason you intentionally included I kept tooking and found that the download of scriptaculous does include those files and for some reason the download from you did not. Anyways, thanks for the video and sample project, keep up the good work!
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