GifCountdown

Create a animated gif countdown picture using RMagick.

Each frame is a second.

Useful for mailings campaign / event notifications.

Usage

“lob = GifCountdown.generate(distance_in_seconds: distance_in_seconds, duration: 5)

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Usage in a Rails controller:

“by def show distance_in_seconds = (some_future_event - Time.zone.now).round

blob = GifCountdown.generate(distance_in_seconds: distance_in_seconds, duration: 10) send_data blob, type: ‘image/gif’, disposition: ‘inline’ end

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Make sure to build a minute cache or something, as building that images might take a couple of seconds every time!

Available Keyword Arguments:

With defaults

“istance_in_seconds: nil #Number of seconds to countdown width: 535 height: 61 fontsize: 30 padding_x: 10 duration: 60 # how many seconds to generate - linearily takes longer to generator font: ‘Ubuntu’ # That font must be installed on the target host that generates the image!

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I18n

It uses “I18n” to build up the words “Days”, “Hours”, “Seconds”, “Minutes” with plurarlization. The Gem ships with en/de.

Installation

Add this line to your application’s Gemfile:

“by gem ‘gif_countdown’

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And then execute:

“sh $ bundle

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Or install it yourself as:

“sh $ gem install gif_countdown

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Contributing

Contribution directions go here.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.