- You want to store images in a fast and highly available storage
- You want photos to be publicly available in the Internet
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'carrierwave-flickr'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install carrierwave-flickr
Put these lines in your carriervawe initializer
CarrierWave.configure do |config|
config.flickr_credentials = {
key: 'YOUR_API_KEY',
secret: 'YOUR_SECRET',
oauth_token: 'YOUR_TOKEN',
oauth_token_secret: 'YOUR_TOKEN_SECRET'
}
end
This library uses flickraw under the hood. See its Authentication section to obtain secret and token
If you want all photos to be stored in a specific album you can specify it
CarrierWave.configure do |config|
config.flickr_credentials = {
...
album: 'YOUR_ALBUM_ID'
}
end
If you want to store photo sizes configure the column where to put them
CarrierWave.configure do |config|
config.store_flickr_photo_sizes = :sizes
end
To get an URL to the photo of a different format you can use
avatar.image.url(format: :square)
The list of available formats you can find there
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/hirurg103/carrierwave-flickr.
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.