Ecm::Pictures 2

Purpose

Create and administrate picture galleries in active admin and display them on in your ruby on rails applictation. Orangebox is used for lightbox support.

Migrating from 1.x.x to 2.0.0

Add active_admin-awesome_nested_set to your gemfile, if you are using activeadmin:

# Gemfile
gem 'active_admin-acts_as_list'

Prerequisites

* Ruby on Rails 4.x
* Twitter Bootstrap 3

Prerequisites when using active admin

if you are using activeadmin as backend, ecm_cms2 comes with admin files to provide a backend. In that case, you’ll need active_admin-acts_as_list. Add it to your gemfile:

# Gemfile
gem 'active_admin-acts_as_list'

Features

* Drop in module for active admin.
* Render a gallery with one method call in your views.
* Lightbox support.
* Picture and Gallery sorting.

Installation

Add it to your gemfile:

# Gemfile
gem 'ecm_pictures2'

Install your bundle:

> bundle install

Generate initializer:

> rails generate ecm:pictures:install

Add the routes to your config/routes.rb:

Rails.application.routes.draw do
  .
  .
  .
  Ecm::Pictures::Routing.routes(self)
end

Generate the migrations:

> rake ecm_pictures_engine:install:migrations

Migrate:

> rake db:migrate

Add the helper to your application controller:

# app/controllers/application_controller.rb
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  helper Ecm::PicturesHelper
  ...
end

Optional: Generate locale files

You may want to copy the locales to your app:

> rails generate ecm:pictures:locales

Usage

You can administrate your pictures and picture galleries in active admin.

Once you have a gallery, you can display it like this:

<%= render_picture_gallery 'Holidays 2012' %>

Running specs

gem install bundler
bundle
cd spec/dummy && rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=test && cd ../..
guard

License

This project rocks and uses MIT-LICENSE.