Image resizing, or other post-processing of Paperclip attachments, can be a long running task in some scenarios. Luckily for us, it’s pretty simple to hook on to Paperclip and run the heavy parts as a background job. This example goes through a normal photo upload.
Exif data is a must-have for browsing through your photos. Adobe Bridge has it, F-Spot has it, and so does about every filebrowser out there, so why not include it in your own database when uploading these photos to your app?
When applying a new design to one of our projects, we were in a need of a Paperclip style with rounded corners. Luckily for us we had Paperclip’s :convert_options and strong ImageMagick-fu.
Tonight I decided to try making NGINX handle my zip generating, to save the server some work, and the user of some frustration waiting for background jobs to finish. Here’s what I came up with.
While implementing an awesome design, I needed to dynamically create a mirror effect on some thumbnails. Since I’m more or less dedicated to Paperclip, I decided to see if it could be done, without any monkeypatching. Here’s what I came up with.