# Alias Page Extension

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/alias-page-extension/88420>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [March 10, 2007, 11:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/alias-page-extension/88420 "2007-03-10T23:15:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![bguan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/8edcca/32.png) [@bguan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bguan)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 11:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/alias-page-extension/88420/21 "2008-05-28T11:24:19Z")

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On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Steven S.  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Oh, mini\_magick might be better. I’m hosting on Joyent and they don’t have  
> rmagick. They don’t have mini\_magick either but I might be able to freeze  
> that one in. What changes do I need to make to have it work with  
> mini\_magick?

After running the radiant:extensions:gallery:install task, you can  
edit the gallery.yml file  
(/vendor/extensions/gallery/config/gallery.yml), and set mini\_magick  
as processor.

–  
Andrea F.  
[http://gravityblast.com](http://gravityblast.com) - [http://nimboo.net](http://nimboo.net)

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**Author:** ![bguan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/8edcca/32.png) [@bguan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bguan)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 11:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/alias-page-extension/88420/22 "2008-05-28T11:49:45Z")

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Shared accelerator. Seems like the BSD servers were loaded with  
almost every gem out there. Not sure why but the new servers are more  
bring your own.

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**Author:** ![bguan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/8edcca/32.png) [@bguan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bguan)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 11:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/alias-page-extension/88420/23 "2008-05-28T11:50:21Z")

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This worked like a charm. Thank you.

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**Author:** ![bguan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/8edcca/32.png) [@bguan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bguan)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 11:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/alias-page-extension/88420/24 "2008-05-28T11:39:05Z")

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Is Spring a BSD Server or a shared accelerator? Don’t take my word  
about mini\_magick, it worked when I was still on a BSD server.

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**Author:** ![bguan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/8edcca/32.png) [@bguan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bguan)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 12:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/alias-page-extension/88420/25 "2008-05-28T12:01:03Z")

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Keith, just curious: How does Paperclip differ from attachment\_fu? It  
seems to have almost the exact same interface - is the only difference  
that paperclip does not require rmagick, mini-magick or imagescience?

Casper F.  
[http://casperfabricius.com](http://casperfabricius.com)

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**Author:** ![bguan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/8edcca/32.png) [@bguan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bguan)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2008, 5:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/alias-page-extension/88420/26 "2008-05-29T17:49:49Z")

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On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Steven S.  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Is there a way to call an image in a gallery by name? Seems like something  
> like this would work but it doesn’t:
> 
> \<img src=“\<r:gallery:item:thumb name=“file.jpg” /\>” /\>

You can’t do it currently. But you can use the position instead  
(position=“first” or position=“2”).  
I’ll add that feature, it could be usefull.

–  
Andrea F.  
[http://gravityblast.com](http://gravityblast.com) - [http://nimboo.net](http://nimboo.net)

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**Author:** ![bguan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/8edcca/32.png) [@bguan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bguan)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 12:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/alias-page-extension/88420/27 "2008-05-28T12:53:21Z")

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It is actually pretty different than attachment\_fu. It doesn’t require  
it’s own model, just a few columns. It is a lot lighter weight. I  
actually like attachment\_fu a lot, but it is a bit slow and it  
requires either RMagick, Mini\_magick or Image Science, all of which  
are problematic. So I thought I would give it a try. So far, it seems  
nice, but I haven’t really tried it in production yet.

Keith B.  
[http://keithbingman.com](http://keithbingman.com)

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**Author:** ![bguan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/8edcca/32.png) [@bguan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bguan)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 1:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/alias-page-extension/88420/28 "2008-06-04T01:02:27Z")

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When I got the newest gallery extension update I couldn’t get  
mini\_magick to work with it. The pictures moved and stayed were I put  
them but I wasn’t able to upload and new images. Also the thumbs  
weren’t the right size either.

I could but the old gallery extension back in and I could upload  
images fine but again the images wouldn’t stay put.

I changed the processor in gallery.yml.default to mini\_magick ( I  
didn’t have a gallery.yml like in the old gallery extension)

Any sugestions?

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**Author:** ![bguan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/8edcca/32.png) [@bguan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bguan)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 2:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/alias-page-extension/88420/29 "2008-06-04T02:15:03Z")

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A guys got to keep on his toes. Okay, I had that file and changing it  
made it work perfectly. Thank you for your fast reply.

-Steven

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**Author:** ![bguan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/8edcca/32.png) [@bguan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bguan)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 1:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/alias-page-extension/88420/30 "2008-06-04T01:38:11Z")

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On 04/giu/08, at 01:02, Steven S. wrote:

> When I got the newest gallery extension update I couldn’t get  
> mini\_magick to work with it. The pictures moved and stayed were I  
> put them but I wasn’t able to upload and new images. Also the  
> thumbs weren’t the right size either.
> 
> I could but the old gallery extension back in and I could upload  
> images fine but again the images wouldn’t stay put.
> 
> I changed the processor in gallery.yml.default to mini\_magick ( I  
> didn’t have a gallery.yml like in the old gallery extension)

In the new version i put the galery.yml file in RAILS\_ROOT/config/  
extensions/gallery/gallery.yml.  
Have you got it ?

-andrea

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