Dragonfly
===========
Hello!!
Dragonfly is a highly customizable ruby gem for handling images and other attachments and is already in use on thousands of websites.
If you want to generate image thumbnails in Rails ...
```ruby
class User < ActiveRecord::Base # model
dragonfly_accessor :photo
end
```
```erb
<%= image_tag @user.photo.thumb('300x200#') # view %>
```
... or generate text images on-demand in Sinatra ...
```ruby
get "/:text" do |text|
Dragonfly.app.generate(:text, text, "font-size" => 32).to_response(env)
end
```
... or just generally manage attachments in your web app ...
```ruby
wav = Dragonfly.app.fetch_url("http://free.music/lard.wav") # GET from t'interwebs
mp3 = wav.to_mp3 # to_mp3 is a custom processor
uid = mp3.store # store in the configured datastore, e.g. S3
url = Dragonfly.app.remote_url_for(uid) # ===> http://s3.amazon.com/my-stuff/lard.mp3
```
... then Dragonfly is for you! See [the documentation](http://markevans.github.io/dragonfly) to get started!
Documentation
=============
THE MAIN DOCUMENTATION IS HERE!!!
RDoc documentation is here
Installation
============
gem install dragonfly
or in your Gemfile
```ruby
gem 'dragonfly', '~> 1.0.8'
```
Require with
```ruby
require 'dragonfly'
```
Articles
========
See [the Articles wiki](http://github.com/markevans/dragonfly/wiki/Articles) for articles and tutorials.
Please feel free to contribute!!
Plugins / add-ons
=================
See [the Add-ons wiki](http://github.com/markevans/dragonfly/wiki/Dragonfly-add-ons).
Please feel free to contribute!!
Issues
======
Please use the github issue tracker if you have any issues.
Suggestions/Questions
=====================
Google group dragonfly-users
Ruby Versions
=============
Dragonfly has been tested with ruby versions 1.8.7, 1.9.2, 1.9.3, 2.0.0, jruby 1.7.8 and rubinius 2.2.
Upgrading from v0.9 to v1.0
===========================
Dragonfly has changed somewhat since version 0.9.
See [the Upgrading wiki](http://github.com/markevans/dragonfly/wiki/Upgrading-from-0.9-to-1.0) for notes on changes, and feel free to add anything you come across while upgrading!
Changes are listed in [History.md](https://github.com/markevans/dragonfly/blob/master/History.md)
If for whatever reason you can't upgrade, then
the docs for version 0.9.x are here.
Credits
=======
[Mark Evans](http://github.com/markevans) (author) with awesome contributions from
these guys