Hi Jim, Thanks a ton for your response. Passed the information along...much appreciated. Think right now just trying to wrestle with how to work with different images with different aspect ratios coming from a wide range of sites!
Best, Emeka On Mar 8, 7:29 pm, Jim Ruther Nill <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 2:48 AM, Philip Hallstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Non-technical founder doing some research to try and help point my > > > developer in the right direction. > > > > Seeking resources or guidance to help generate an image preview from a > > > link, similar to the one used in Facebook's UI, and then subsequently > > > also allow a user to display / grab the full size image of the preview > > > as well. Not looking to necessarily create a bookmarklet a la > > > svpply.com or the like, but interested in figuring out a way whereby a > > > user can enter a link, select the image they want on the page they've > > > linked to, and then have that image added to a post or submission to a > > > web page. > > you can do this using a simple ajax process. > > submit the link via ajax then in the controller, get the html page through > the HTTP::Net library or use a gem like httparty. Parse the page with > nokogiri and save all the images in an array. Use the array to show the > user the images found on that link. > > > > > > Any help, guidance, or anything would be greatly appreciated!! > > >http://www.pageglimpse.com/ > > > Maybe... I did a project using alexa thumbnail service, but looks like that > > got shut down. One article pointed to the above as a replacement. I've > > never used it though... > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------- > visit my blog athttp://jimlabs.heroku.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
