thedanbob/dragonfly

A Ruby gem for on-the-fly processing - suitable for image uploading in Rails, Sinatra and much more!

Dragonfly

Hello!! Dragonfly is a highly customizable ruby gem for handling images and other attachments and is already in use on thousands of websites.

If you want to generate image thumbnails in Rails ...

class User < ActiveRecord::Base  # model
  dragonfly_accessor :photo
end

<%= image_tag @user.photo.thumb('300x200#').url if @user.photo_stored? # view %>

... or generate text images on-demand in Sinatra ...

get "/:text" do |text|
  Dragonfly.app.generate(:text, text, "font-size" => 32).to_response(env)
end

... or just generally manage attachments in your web app ...

wav = Dragonfly.app.fetch_url("http://free.music/lard.wav")  # GET from t'interwebs
mp3 = wav.to_mp3  # to_mp3 is a custom processor
uid = mp3.store   # store in the configured datastore, e.g. S3

url = Dragonfly.app.remote_url_for(uid)  # ===> http://s3.amazon.com/my-stuff/lard.mp3

... then Dragonfly is for you! See the documentation to get started!

Documentation

THE MAIN DOCUMENTATION IS HERE!!!

RDoc documentation is here

Installation

gem install dragonfly

or in your Gemfile

gem 'dragonfly', '~> 1.2.0'

Require with

require 'dragonfly'

Articles

See the Articles wiki for articles and tutorials.

Please feel free to contribute!!

Examples

See the Wiki and see the pages list for examples.

Please feel free to contribute!!

Plugins / add-ons

See the Add-ons wiki.

Please feel free to contribute!!

Issues

Please use the github issue tracker if you have any issues.

Known Issues

There are known issues when using with json gem version 1.5.2 which can potentially cause an "incorrect sha" error for files with non-ascii characters in the name. Please see markevans#387 for more information.

Suggestions/Questions

Google group dragonfly-users

Ruby Versions

See Travis-CI for tested versions.

Upgrading from v0.9 to v1.0

Dragonfly has changed somewhat since version 0.9. See the Upgrading wiki for notes on changes, and feel free to add anything you come across while upgrading!

Changes are listed in History.md

If for whatever reason you can't upgrade, then the docs for version 0.9.x are here.

Credits

Mark Evans (author) with awesome contributions from these guys