Albumdy is an open source photo gallery built with Ruby on Rails and jQuery using some of my favorite plugins and practices.

A live demo is available at www.albumdy.com

There are many existing photo gallery apps around, but none I could find demonstrating the following key technologies:

• Built with Ruby on Rails 2.3
• CSS layout with Blueprint CSS
• Client side scripting with the popular and unobtrusive jQuery
• Lightboxing effects using Leandro Vieira Pinho’s jQuery lightBox
• Photo Gallery courtesy of Galleria
• Textboxing effects using Cody Lindley’s ThickBox
• Thin controllers with James Golick’s resource_controller
• File uploads and thumbnail generation with Thoughtbot’s Paperclip
• User Registration with Rick Olson’s restful_authentication
• Organized nested routes as described in Regulators!!! Mount up

You will need the following additional gems installed:

• sudo gem install mime-types http://mime-types.rubyforge.org/
• sudo gem install right_aws (If you want to use Amazon S3 for storage, although paperclip + S3 is a bit slow)
• sudo gem install exif (used to store jpg metadata like when the photo was taken, aperture, f stop, etc.)

To install and run the app:

• git clone git://github.com/rapind/albumdy.git
• go to the application’s root directory I.e. cd ~/Sites/albumdy
• rename / copy the database.yml.sample to database.yml and enter your database information (I.e. cp config/database.yml.sample config/database.yml)
• rake gems:install
• rake db:create
• rake db:migrate
• rake db:bootstrap
• script/server

SQLite and Ruby 1.9 support courtesy of ahaller

Idea for photo EXIF extraction courtesy of nofxx