rwebthumb

what is it

A Ruby wrapper for the webthumb API from webthumb.bluga.net and a generator for the easythumb API

Installation

sudo gem update –system (in case you are not yet on version 1.2.0 or higher) sudo gem sources -a gems.github.com (only once) sudo gem install filippocamillo-rwebthumb

Usage

# require the libs require ‘rubygems’ require ‘rwebthumb’ include Simplificator::Webthumb

# Creating a Webthumb Object. This is used as your main access point. wt = Webthumb.new(‘YOUR API KEY’)

# Create a new thumbnail job job = wt.thumbnail(:url => ‘www.filippocamillo.com’)

# fetch the thumbnail. this might throw an exception from server side # if thumb is not ready yet job.fetch(:large)

# you can check the status of a job by request id job.check_status

# you can also now check the status of a job by url job.check_status_by_url

# or fetch the thumbnail when it is complete job.fetch_when_complete(:large)

# once thumbnails are fetched they are cached within the job. so a new fetch will not go to the server again

# there is a helper method to write the images to disk job.write_file(job.fetch(:custom), ‘/tmp/test.jpg’)

# if you have a job ID then you can use this to get a Job object and then use the fetch_xyz methods wt.job_status(JOB_ID)

# check the status of your account wt.status

# generate a Easythumb URL et = Easythumb.new(‘YOUR_API_KEY’, ‘YOUR_USER_ID’) # This returns an URL which you can directly use in your webpage et.build_url(:url => ‘simplificator.com’, :size => :large, :cache => 1)