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Albumdy is an open source photo gallery built with Ruby on Rails and jQuery using some of my favorite plugins and practices.

A live demo is available at albumdy.com

There are many existing photo gallery apps around, but none I could find demonstrating the following key technologies:

• Built with Ruby on Rails 2.1
• CSS layout with Blueprint CSS
• Client side scripting with the popular and unobtrusive jQuery
• Lightboxing effects using Leandro Vieira Pinho’s jQuery lightBox
• Photo Gallery courtesy of Galleria
• Textboxing effects using Cody Lindley’s ThickBox
• Multiple file upload client SWFUpload
• Thin controllers with James Golick’s resource_controller
• File uploads and thumbnail generation with Thoughtbot’s Paperclip
• File storage with Amazon S3
• User Registration with Rick Olson’s restful_authentication
• Permalinks (SEO) using Randomba’s friendly_id
• Organized nested routes as described in Regulators!!! Mount up

You will need the following additional gems installed:

• sudo gem install mime-types http://mime-types.rubyforge.org/
• sudo gem install right_aws (If you want to use Amazon S3 for storage, although paperclip + S3 is a bit slow)