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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?

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: Upload photos in Balder

Add albums to collection: Add albums to collection in Balder

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.

Written on 09 November 2009.
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