bettinson/Imageup

An image hosting site written in Rails

Image uploader

About

This is my image uploader service.

Features

• Upload images
• Users, authentication, signup, etc
• Following, unfollowing
• Newsfeed of images of people you're following
• View images posted by specific user
• Thumbnails generated by background Resque tasks

Get started

Install dependencies and configure:

1. brew install redis

• bundle install --without production
• rake db:migrate
• Create a config/secrets.yml the following contents and your own keys. Generate new keys with rails secret:

development:
  secret_key_base: 3b406be...
test:
  secret_key_base: 62969ff...
production:
  secret_key_base: <%= ENV["SECRET_KEY_BASE"] %>

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Run tests and start our server:

1. Start the thumbnail background thread in another thread with:
   • RAILS_ENV=production rake resque:work QUEUE=* BACKGROUND=YES
   • redis-server

• Run tests with: rake
• Load server with: rails server
• Open http://localhost:3000

Eventual roadmap:

• Index page with thumbnails created by worker tasks
• Users
• Following
• Newsfeed
• Likes/comments
• Tagging
• Searching