Using With Rails 2.3 ==================== Setting up the quick way ------------------------ config/initializers/dragonfly.rb: require 'dragonfly/rails/images' Setting up the more explicit way -------------------------------- You can do the above explicitly. config/initializers/dragonfly.rb: require 'dragonfly' app = Dragonfly[:images] app.configure_with(:imagemagick) app.configure_with(:rails) app.define_macro(ActiveRecord::Base, :image_accessor) environment.rb: config.middleware.insert_after 'Rack::Lock', 'Dragonfly::Middleware', :images, '/media' config.middleware.insert_before 'Dragonfly::Middleware', 'Rack::Cache', { :verbose => true, :metastore => "file:#{Rails.root}/tmp/dragonfly/cache/meta", :entitystore => "file:#{Rails.root}/tmp/dragonfly/cache/body" } Gems ---- environment.rb config.gem 'dragonfly', '~>0.8.6' config.gem 'rack-cache', :lib => 'rack/cache' Capistrano ---------- If using Capistrano with the above, you probably will want to keep the cache between deploys, so in deploy.rb: namespace :dragonfly do desc "Symlink the Rack::Cache files" task :symlink, :roles => [:app] do run "mkdir -p #{shared_path}/tmp/dragonfly && ln -nfs #{shared_path}/tmp/dragonfly #{release_path}/tmp/dragonfly" end end after 'deploy:update_code', 'dragonfly:symlink' Use it! ------- To see what you can do with the model accessors, see {file:Models}.