Grokphoto

Grokphoto is a professional photographer's client and booking management solution, as well as a gallery / portfolio where they can showcase for their work.

This version is work in progress / port to rails 3.1.

For the stable rails 2 version please see the version 2 branch: Version 2

Software Requirements

• ImageMagick
• SQLite3 or MySQL or PostgreSQL

Installation

git clone git://github.com/rapind/grokphoto.git
cd grokphoto
rake grokphoto:init
bundle

Then edit these files with your own settings. Everything you need to change is marked with TODO along with instructions if necessary:

• config/database.yml
• config/heroku.yml
• config/initializers/devise.rb
• config/initializers/secret_token.rb
• config/initializers/session_store.rb

Then initialize the database and start the server:

rake db:create
rake db:migrate
rake db:seed
rails s

At this point you should have a working site with some basic seed data that you can start to customize.

Initial Configuration

1. Login to the administration area (/admin) using [email protected] / password
2. Click on the Settings tab.
3. Enter your own information and update the settings.

Themes

Themes are currently implemented using rails engines.

• Default Theme
• More coming soon...

Heroku Deployment

heroku create --stack cedar

Setup your own values in the next command, using your own email address, the name of your application for the session key and "rake secret" to generate a new secret key.

heroku config:add [email protected] SESSION_KEY=_change_me_to_your_app_name SECRET_KEY=result_of_rake_secret_goes_here
git push heroku master
heroku run rake db:migrate

Before you seed the database you'll need to setup an amazon s3 account and bucket to have somewhere to store the files. Heroku has a temporary filesystem which is not an appropriate place to store images.

• Go to: https://console.aws.amazon.com/s3/home
• Create a bucket
• Go to: https://aws-portal.amazon.com/gp/aws/developer/account/index.html
• Click on the Security Credentials in the left nav, then the Access Credentials in the body.
• Copy your S3 key and your S3 secret key

Use your S3 information to fill in the config vars for heroku, then seed the database.

heroku config:add S3_KEY=change_to_your_amazon_s3_key S3_SECRET=change_to_your_amazon_s3_secret S3_BUCKET=change_to_your_amazon_s3_bucket
heroku run rake db:seed
heroku open

You can check to make sure all of your heroku environment variables have been properly set using:

heroko config

Features

• Personalize your site via the configuration / settings page.
• Manage your portfolios and showcase your work.
• Manage your own pages with markdown.
• Manage and share private galleries with clients easily via secure URL.
• One-click photo uploads.
• Automatically apply a watermark to all of your gallery photos.
• Photo commenting system for both you and your clients.
• SEO Friendly URLs.
• Google compliant sitemap.
• Google analytics integration.
• Basic view statistics / history for your client galleries.

TODO

• Finish the default theme.
• Internationalization.
• Client order assembly / package selection / shopping cart / payment, etc.

Tests

To run the tests:

rspec spec

Credits

Sample photos were provided by and are copyright of Jaime Coyle Photography http://jaimecoyle.com

License

Grokphoto by http://github.com/rapind/grokphoto is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Canada License.
Based on a work at github.com.