Friday, Aug 17, 2007
Tim Lucas, of the very popular toolmantim.com Rails blog has saved me a good deal of work by wrapping the Kropper code into a Rails plugin. He’s also using Kropper on webjam.com.au. This is great news, and it’s really gratifying to me that a) people like my first open-source project enough to contribute code to it, and b) someone as smart and talented as Tim is contributing. I’ve read Tim’s blog quite a bit since I started working with Rails, and it feels great that to be collaborating with one of the people I’ve learned from.
Update: Tim has finished his pluginized version of Kropper! You can access his plugin source via SVN or your web browser here: http://rubyforge.org/scm/?group_id=3936. I’ll post another update when I get around to refactoring the demo app to use the pluginized code.
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hi, this is a great app and would make a great plugin. is there any progress with pluginizing?
I am trying to implement it from demo app, but i am struggling with errors, which are not being logged in development.log, strange.
Hi Miro. Sorry I haven’t updated the demo app yet, but Tim Lucas did finish his pluginizing of Kropper and has uploaded his code to our SVN repository at Rubyforge. You can see how to check out that code at http://rubyforge.org/scm/?group_id=3936.
When I have some free time, I will refactor the code of the demo app to use Tim’s pluginized kropper so that it’s a better example of how to get started.
thanks Jon, i looked at plugin, but it seems that it is heavily dependent on attachment_fu, which my app is not using. i got your code working in my app, however, but i had to change some things in order to get rid of attachment_fu dependence.
Thanks a lot
I just found your kropper, too bad I didn’t see it before I wrote my own… I was googling today coz I just turned the attachment_fu backend back to S3 on our beta site before bringing our redesigned site live, and then my cropper stopped working! After looking at it for hours today I found that with_image does NOT work when you use the S3 backend. I just downloaded and I ran kropper locally, it worked with file_system, I setup my S3 stuff and ran it, and you guess it, same problem. This is kindda annoying and definitely a huge oversight of attachment_fu…
I’m hacking around it right now, like overriding with_image in s3_backend.rb, but I just feel like letting you know that you did a great job and it would make a nice plugin, just know that it doesn’t work with S3 without fixing attachment_fu.
Thanks!
–Andrew, OnMyList.com
This plugin is such a godsend and so easy to integrate, thank you so much. Is there a way to use this plugin to just crop the thumbnail and not the original full size image?
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