Pictrails

A Web Photo Gallery, written with Rails 2.1. Pictrails can manage several photo galleries.

Features

• Create several Galleries
• Create Galleries like child of another Gallery
• Add several pictures in a Gallery
• Create a gallery with define a directory in same server of pictrails if the directory has several directories into, all of this directory are child of master Gallery
• Admin interface with login to add/edit/delete Galleries and Pictures
• Define the thumbnails and pictures size in settings interface
• Delete the cache page in settings interface
• Define the number of pictures by pagination Gallery
• Define the number of gallery by pagination of Gallery’s list
• Define a list of tag for pictures
• View a sidebar with all gallery in it tree
• Navigate with a breadcrumb
• View a cloud tag of all gallery
• Navigate by tag
• Comments on each pictures

Requirements

Currently you need all of those things to get Pictrails to run:

• Ruby On Rails 2.1.x
• Ruby of 1.8.6 or greater
• A database supported by Rails ActiveRecord (MySQL, DB2, SQLite3, ...)
• Ruby drivers for your database (obviously out of the box with Rails)
• Redcloth gem
• A gem of an image-handling API like :
  • ImageScience
  • RMagick
  • Mini-magick

Installing

With the tar.gz or any other archive:

• Extract sources to a folder
• Create a database.yml file in the config directory. You can copy the database.yml.example
• Create your databases: rake db:create:all
• Migrate your database: rake db:migrate
• Start the server in production mode : ruby script/server -e production

Updating

With the tar.gz or any other archive:

• Extract sources and replace all in the old folder
• Stop the server
• Migrate your database: rake db:migrate
• Start the server in production mode : ruby script/server -e production

Demo Website

A demo website of Pictrails is available to the demo of pictrails

The admin part has like login/pass : admin/pictrails

Information about this project

Pictrails is actually consider like an Beta version, and is under development.

All contributions are welcome.

I suck in design, I know it and I am sorry but I will really be happy if anyone could help me.

If you want to contribute, all work is made under a git repository. You can clone the source with the following command :

git clone git://github.com/shingara/pictrails.git

After a clone you need update the submodule :

git submodule init git submodule update

A redmine development platform is used. Feel free to post your feature requests and defects report.

License

This code is free to use under the terms of the MIT license (provided with sources).

Cyril Mougel, 1st October 2008
Theme extended from Paul Battley