RubyStand is A Gallery in Rails

As an avid photographer I always try to keep with latest trends in areas around photography and photo management. Several months ago I decided to move my old (plain html + images) gallery of family photos to somethin more modern. I also like to customize things so I started looking at Rails gallery app and found … almost nothing. What a shame I thought. So being a Rails developer and one free weekend later and you get this: RubyStand

RubyStand is build on top of Rails3 and uses a plain file system to store photos (I plan to extend it later to support S3 to make it easier on traffix to the site). Core RubyStand featues are

• database free
• relies on plain image files on the disk
• defines albums as sets of images
• each album has title, year and a description
• expects thumbnails along with normal files (will be automated in future versions)
• can read basic metadata about albums and photos from YAML files

I have had it deployed for my personal photos for several months and it was working flawlessly so far.