Kinda a hack but.... If you look at mysql, they compile native c code.
I played with this in http://github.com/kbrock/tclink Not sure what the dependencies are, but wonder if the code is tight enough to embed it in a gem. --K On Jun 8, 2010, at 10:37 AM, Richard Conroy wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Patrick Crowley <patr...@mokolabs.com> wrote: > Has anyone been able to extract EXIF information from photo uploads on > Heroku? > > Most EXIF parsing gems are wrappers for libraries that aren't > available on the Heroku stack. (And we can't install these libraries > manually as you'd normally do on a VPS.) > > > You can install non-standard gems on heroku. You need to look into updating > your .gems file manifest. It can be a bit tricky if your gem has dependencies > that are not part of the heroku stack. It will compile native gems for you > (within > reason - no Win32 gems for instance) and generally works pretty well. > > It can make your app size very big though, and can make deploy times very > lengthy. > > > -- > http://richardconroy.blogspot.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Heroku" group. > To post to this group, send email to her...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > heroku+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to her...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to heroku+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en.
