Thumbalizr-Rails version 1.0

Thumbalizr (thumbalizr.com/) is a web service to easily embed live screenshots of any URL in your website. Thumbalizr has full support for Flash, JavaScript, CSS, & HTML5.

You can install the library from rubygem: rubygems.org/gems/thumbalizr-rails

The source code can be found on github at github.com/juliensobrier/thumbalizr-rails

This gem is based on the Tumbalir library for Ruby: github.com/juliensobrier/thumbalizr-ruby

Build and install thumbalizr-rails

git clone https://github.com/juliensobrier/thumbalizr-rails
gem build thumbalizr-rails.gemspec
gem install --dev thumbalizr-rails-<version>.gem
rake test
rake rdoc

Or

gem install thumbalizr-rails

Use with Rails

This gems makes the custom tag thumbalizr_url available in your templates.

First configure your Rails project:

# Gemfile gem ‘thumbalizr-rails’

# Create config/initializers/thumbalizr.rb ThumbalizrClient.config(“MY_KEY”, “MY_SECRET”)

# In your templates, use <%= thumbalizr_url %> to generate the URL of a thumbnail: <img src=“<%= thumbalizr_url(‘www.google.com/’, => ‘us’, :width => 400) %>”>