Profile Pic(ture) As A Service

• home :: github.com/profilepic/profilepic
• bugs :: github.com/profilepic/profilepic/issues
• gem :: rubygems.org/gems/profilepic
• rdoc :: rubydoc.info/gems/profilepic

Command-Line Tool

Use the command line tool named - surprise, surpirse - profilepic to run a zero-config / out-of-the-box profile pic(ture) as a service. Type:

$ profilepic

That will start-up a (local loopback) web server / service running on port 3000.
Open-up up the index page in your browser to get started e.g. http://localhost:3000/.

That's it.

Usage in Your Scripts And/Or (Web) Apps

Yes, you can. The ProfilepicService class is a "plain-vanilla" rack (web) app (powered by the sinatra gem / library). To run the app "standalone" use:

require 'profilepic'

# start-up the ProfilepicService (rack) app, that is, the profile pic(ure) as a service,
#   using the WEBrick server running on port 3000 using the local loopback host e.g. 127.0.0.1     
Rack::Handler::WEBrick.run ProfilepicService, :Port => 3000, :Host => '127.0.0.1'

Or mount the rack (web) app in your own scripts or web framework/library of choice.

Install

Just install the gem:

$ gem install profilepic

License

The scripts are dedicated to the public domain. Use it as you please with no restrictions whatsoever.

Questions? Comments?

Post them on the D.I.Y. Punk (Pixel) Art reddit. Thanks.