Forum: Ruby on Rails best way to do facebook style photo gallery ? use flash ?

Hey guys, Im trying to create a photo gallery where photos are listed,
but when a user clicks in to one, they can click next and previous.

Im trying to do the most efficient way here. Im thinking I need to store
the entire set of photos so I know where the photo is in relation to the
other photos in the set so I know the next photo and the previous.

I was thinking of flashing the photo set across the pages, that way I
dont have to do a database call.

I could put the photos into the session as well, that way I dont have to
worry about flashing all the time.

Any ideas? Keep in mind that I want to use as little server side
resources as possible. =)

Thanks in advance...

class Model < ARB
   acts_as_list
end

Controller:
@object = Model.find(params[:id])

View:
@object.next
@object.previous

On Jan 21, 10:50 am, Aryk Grosz <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net>

"Aryk Grosz Wrote£º
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> I could put the photos into the session as well, that way I dont have to
> worry about flashing all the time.
>
> Any ideas? Keep in mind that I want to use as little server side
> resources as possible. =)
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
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Hi Aryk Grosz, you could try to make a picture slideshow with thumbnail
gallery templates. so that you'll see the thumbnail the pictures while
they are playing. Flash SlideShow Builder is a good program for doing
that. http://www.flash-slide-show.com/flash-slide-show.php?sid=3
This software is easy-to-master, and no flash background knowledge is
required, yet you can still make an excellent flash slideshow with 200+
transition effects, background music, text caption, etc.
Hope this would help.


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I tried out the acts_as_list plugin and it works great. Thats exactly 
what I had in mind. Makes sense that rails would have plugin for it 
already.

Can the paginator be used with :per_page => 1 ?

well its not as clean, because you would have to be calling the 
paginator on everypage or transfer it between pages via flash, using a 
list is much cleaner, and doesnt require you having to invoke a 
paginator.