Hello,
I want to create a slideshow of photogrpahs in rails. Can anyone suggest
me how do i proceed. I will store the pictures directly on the disk.
Thanks you.
The book “Ajax on Rails” from O’Reilly walks through a photo gallery
implementation that should work great as a slideshow with a few minor
tweaks. Or you might be able to find some sample code online if you
don’t want to buy a book. You might also try to reverse engineer an
existing slideshow site.
In general these types if questions are too non-specific for this type
of forum. There are too many variables: Do you want an AJAX solution
or just plain HTML? Will there be an upload page?
Robert W. wrote:
The book “Ajax on Rails” from O’Reilly walks through a photo gallery
implementation that should work great as a slideshow with a few minor
tweaks. Or you might be able to find some sample code online if you
don’t want to buy a book. You might also try to reverse engineer an
existing slideshow site.In general these types if questions are too non-specific for this type
of forum. There are too many variables: Do you want an AJAX solution
or just plain HTML? Will there be an upload page?
Sorry, for not mentioning things clearly. I will need an upload page and
want to use AJAX. If you know any resources please ket me know.
Thanks a lot.
Ank Ag wrote:
Hello,
I want to create a slideshow of photogrpahs in rails. Can anyone suggest
me how do i proceed. I will store the pictures directly on the disk.Thanks you.
i seem to remember i was trying to do something similar once but gave up
half way through and did what I wanted a different way. The way i was
doing it was by using a javascript carousel library…
this one is straight javascript from Yahoo I think:
http://billwscott.com/carousel/
and this french guy converted it for ruby (or something):
http://prototype-carousel.xilinus.com/
but as you can see it’s “not anymore supported” so they link to this
instead:
can’t help you any more than that I’m afraid
If you think about it, a pretty simple pagination-based system would be
a
decent slideshow. 
On Feb 17, 2008 8:37 AM, Ank Ag [email protected]
wrote:
or just plain HTML? Will there be an upload page?
Sorry, for not mentioning things clearly. I will need an upload page and
want to use AJAX. If you know any resources please ket me know.
Thanks a lot.Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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On Feb 17, 5:37 am, Ank Ag [email protected] wrote:
Sorry, for not mentioning things clearly. I will need an upload page and
want to use AJAX. If you know any resources please ket me know.
Thanks a lot.Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
there’s a few in scriptaculous (just oogling, haven’t tried myself):
http://blog.caboo.se/articles/2006/01/19/easy-scriptaculous-slideshow
gene tani wrote:
On Feb 17, 5:37 am, Ank Ag [email protected] wrote:
Sorry, for not mentioning things clearly. I will need an upload page and
want to use AJAX. If you know any resources please ket me know.
Thanks a lot.Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
there’s a few in scriptaculous (just oogling, haven’t tried myself):
Parked at Loopia
Smooth scrolling image list
HugeDomains.com
Thx a lot I will try those scriptaculous.
@Ank – It is not possible to do a file upload via AJAX; the
technology does not support it. You can acheive something that is
AJAX-like, however. You will definitely want to grab the
attachment_fu plugin; this plugin handles all the heavy lifting
involved in retrieving the file from the post, storing it (disk or db
– you configure), and creating a model instance for it.
There are a few tools out there to help with the AJAX-like process. I
have tried working with the upload_status plugin but did not feel that
I had adequate control over the responses. I preferred the earlier
work from the same plugin author called respond_to_parent and doing a
little more work on my own.
Here’s a decent how-to:
http://khamsouk.souvanlasy.com/2007/5/1/ajax-file-uploads-in-rails-using-attachment_fu-and-responds_to_parent
HTH,
AndyV