Balder - Open source photo gallery built with Ruby on Rails
So you got lots of photos, yeah? Tried installing some PHP-gallery and it sucked? Or bought a Flickr Pro-account but want more control of how your photo collection is displayed (or still want access to your data when you stop paying them)? Fear not; Balder is here for the rescue.
As a result of a project with two photographers I did this summer I have now open sourced the code and named it Balder. It is a photo gallery built in Ruby on Rails. It aims to be minimalistically beautiful and simple to use. Look at it as Flickr on your own server - without the social features that is.
So what can it do?
- Organize in albums (as events in iPhoto)
- Combine albums in collections (as albums in iPhoto)
- Stores photos to disk in folders
- Create multiple thumbnails of custom sizes
- Read and writes EXIF/IPTC title, description and keywords
- Upload multiple photos in one go (can also scan existing folder structure)
- Tag photos. Can also tag albums (or the result is that all photos in the album is tagged)
- User management with roles and permissions
- Geo-location of albums & photos with Google Maps integration.
If you want to see it in action look no further than to this domain. After my 10-month trip in 2008 I took a few photos and you can see a selection at photos.inspired.no.
And this is how it looks for the administrator:
Upload multiple photos with live progress:
Add albums to collection:
Want to try it out? Head over to BalderApp.com for this free open source Ruby on Rails photo gallery or go directly to the source-code which you can find at both GitHub and Gitorious.