Oh, well then I added no value to the conversation :-) But yes, Image Magick can do that. I've done it on a .NET platform (I know, the horror). We did notice it was resource heavy so we'd end up processing async so it wouldn't hold up other processes. Basically we had a cron job that would watch a folder and process files that were put into a queue. Then update when the images were available.
-Jason On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Kevin Ball <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jason, > > We're already using paperclip for resizing/thumbnails, but are looking at > a project that will actually be doing merging. > > -Kevin > > > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Jason Liebrecht < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hey Kevin, >> I've used Image Magick on other projects but not in ruby. Mostly for >> post-processing uploaded pictures for performance reason (like someone >> uploads a photo and you want to resize it so its consistent with the site >> layout, thumbnails etc) >> > > >> Are you going to actually merge images or just resize? If you're just >> resizing paperclip worked pretty good on my last project. >> >> https://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip >> >> -Jason >> >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Kevin Ball <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hey folks, >>> >>> Does anyone have experience using RMagick or any other similar library >>> to generate new images from sets of existing images? Any recommendations >>> for gems that make this easy or tutorials on how to do it? Thanks, >>> >>> -Kevin >>> >>> -- >>> SD Ruby mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> email: [email protected] >> >> >> -- >> SD Ruby mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby >> > > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby > -- email: [email protected] -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
