Working With Rails

Asset Manager

Asset Manager Desert Plugin

Gives your application full asset capabilities including - Multi upload using Uploadify - Support 3 media types: images, audio, video - Video encoding - Custom image cropping - asset_tag helper method to automatically detect and embed the requested media type in a RESTful way.

Dependencies The asset manager plugin is to be used with the desert gem (http://github.com/pivotal/desert) to provide (almost) out of the box functionality.

Other dependencies not included are: - paperclip (http://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip/) – installed as a plugin - jrails – http://github.com/aaronchi/jrails/

And these gems specified in vendor/plugins/asset_manager/config/environment.rb: - greatseth-rvideo - mime-types - git - jeweler - mbleigh-acts-as-taggable-on - RedCloth - mislav-will_paginate - rmagick

== Installation

- script/plugin install git@github.com:joshnabbott/asset_manager.git - Copy vendor/plugins/asset_manager/public/* content to public/ (Please note: you may want to copy the files one directory at a time so you don’t entirely overwrite your existing javascripts and stylesheets directories.) - Copy vendor/plugins/asset_manager/lib/paperclip_processors content to lib/ - Open vender/plugins/asset_manager/config/environment.rb.example and copy and paste the specified lines into config/environment.rb - Copy vendor/plugins/asset_manager/app/middleware/flash_session_cookie_middleware.rb content to app/middleware/ - Follow the desert gem setup instructions here: http://github.com/pivotal/desert - Fire up the app and navigate to localhost:3000/asset_manager/images - You may also want to .gitignore whatever directory images get stored to. By default it’s public/system.

NOTE: This description has been extracted from the Plugin README and so the formatting may need updating to make browser friendly