Which plugins/gems should I use to dynamically generate thumbnails on-the-fly in Rails 3?

Question

So, the thing is. I\'m building my first rails app which reads images from a directory and it\'s subdirs. Now, I want to generate dynamic thumbnails of those images. But I d

Answer 1

You should rmagick coupled with Paperclip. In this way you can specify the dimensions (and many other attributes of the images), and make thumbnails on the fly.

On top of this, I would also add in delayed_job which will background the process of the images so if any of them are provided by the client, they won't have to wait for it to complete client-side.

rMagick : http://github.com/rmagick/rmagick

Paperclip: http://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip

delayed_job: http://github.com/collectiveidea/delayed_job