Two questions from a PHP guy thinking of moving to Rails: 1. Does Rails have equivalents for PHP''s FTP functions (www.php.net/ftp)? 2. What about image editing functions similar to PHP''s GD2 functions? (I would basically want to be able to crop, rotate, draw lines, add text...) I searched online for the above but I got somewhat conflicting info about image editing and almost no info on FTP functions. I thought this would be the best place to ask for help, as the applications I''m about to start working on will need both items mentioned and I won''t be able to use RoR if there are no image editing and/or ftp features. Many thanks, Gabor -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
The capabilities you''re asking for are available as Ruby libraries/gems: Check out Net::FTP (part of the ruby std lib) - http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/ftp/rdoc/index.html For image manipulation, check out RMagick: http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/ Good luck! -DF On 6/6/06, Gabor Demeter <gabordemeter@myway.com> wrote:> Two questions from a PHP guy thinking of moving to Rails: > > 1. Does Rails have equivalents for PHP''s FTP functions > (www.php.net/ftp)? > > 2. What about image editing functions similar to PHP''s GD2 functions? (I > would basically want to be able to crop, rotate, draw lines, add > text...) > > I searched online for the above but I got somewhat conflicting info > about image editing and almost no info on FTP functions. I thought this > would be the best place to ask for help, as the applications I''m about > to start working on will need both items mentioned and I won''t be able > to use RoR if there are no image editing and/or ftp features. > > Many thanks, > > Gabor > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >
Also worth checking is the psitsNOT engine. http://svn.openprofile.net/plugins/p_sitsnot_engine/README Basically a plugin extracted from this site. http://psitsnot.alevans.com/ Should help you so you get image manipulaton up in 14,7 sec. On 6/6/06, David Felstead <david.felstead@gmail.com> wrote:> The capabilities you''re asking for are available as Ruby libraries/gems: > > Check out Net::FTP (part of the ruby std lib) - > http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/ftp/rdoc/index.html > > For image manipulation, check out RMagick: > http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/ > > Good luck! > > -DF > > On 6/6/06, Gabor Demeter <gabordemeter@myway.com> wrote: > > Two questions from a PHP guy thinking of moving to Rails: > > > > 1. Does Rails have equivalents for PHP''s FTP functions > > (www.php.net/ftp)? > > > > 2. What about image editing functions similar to PHP''s GD2 functions? (I > > would basically want to be able to crop, rotate, draw lines, add > > text...) > > > > I searched online for the above but I got somewhat conflicting info > > about image editing and almost no info on FTP functions. I thought this > > would be the best place to ask for help, as the applications I''m about > > to start working on will need both items mentioned and I won''t be able > > to use RoR if there are no image editing and/or ftp features. > > > > Many thanks, > > > > Gabor > > > > -- > > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > _______________________________________________ > > Rails mailing list > > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails > > > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >-- -------------- Jon Gretar Borgthorsson http://www.jongretar.net/
Gabor Demeter wrote:> Two questions from a PHP guy thinking of moving to Rails: > > 1. Does Rails have equivalents for PHP''s FTP functions > (www.php.net/ftp)? >I asked a question below on being able to send/receive files in response to an http request and haven''t heard anything from the group yet. I''m guessing that this is not essential to setting up a web site for most people. However, it seems that this is built into Ruby. Look at the Pickaxe book for Net::http and ftp. Bill -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 02:27:11AM +0200, Gabor Demeter wrote:> 1. Does Rails have equivalents for PHP''s FTP functions > (www.php.net/ftp)?Rails is "just" a framework; you should compare PHP with Ruby, not with Rails. Therefore, when you''re looking for extensions, look for Ruby ones; putting "rails" in your google searches will reduce the set of answers significantly. -jim