Shimmer – A Photo Album on Rails
This is my latest OSS project. I started it to basically factor out what used to live in my own site into it’s own house.
It works very nicely with typo with the help of a couple typo macro’s I wrote for it. And thanks to rails, it’s a cinch to work on and add new features. I’m liking rails 1.0 a whole lot.
Noteable features are:
- It’s pretty
- It’s fast and lazy loading when it needs to resize stuff.
- To configure it, you point it at a directory with pictures in it, that’s it.
- Keyboard navigation
- Slideshow, though there’s still a lot missing from our slideshow
Coming up:
- AJAXy captions
- AJAXy ratings
- Favorites page
- Online editing (thanks to rmagick)
We’re still early days, but it’s defnitely useable, as you can see. Take a look at what we have planned or grab the source from rubyforge svn.
And definitely let me know if you wanna help out!