I''m working on a gallery site and want to add watermark to each image (image manipulation is fairly straightforward with RMagick). I also want to allow the administrator to change the watermark image. The workflow I want to achieve is something like this (assume the user has just clicked the "watermark" link in admin panel): 1. Have the current watermark image shown along with a one or two example images with watermark added to them. 2. Upload a new watermark. 3. Have it shown, with examples (with indication that this is temporary and needs to be applied). 4a. Go to 2. 4b. Revert to old watermark (cancel). 4c. Apply the new watermark to all pictures (which starts a background process for updating all photos from "clear" originals). The problem I have is storing the temporary image between steps 2 and 4. The ideas I have are: 1. Store the image on disk as a tmp-watermark.png file and if it is present, the admin panel knows it''s a "temporary" state. It has the disadvantage that only one user can work on this (which is the case anyway, but I don''t like it) and that the state is persistent, ie. if the user uploads the file, goes away and logs in a week later, the panel still shows the temporary watermark waiting for being approved or cancelled. 2. Store the image under unique name and keep the name in session. Session times out, on the next log-in everything looks fine, there could be two administrators working at the same time provided that I put some locking mechanism (versioning for example, as in AR). There is no way to clean up other than having a cron job sweeping periodically. 3. Store the image using backgroundrb, I''m using it anyway for the background processing. Do you have any ideas or some arguments for one of them? I currently sway towards the third solution, though it requires some more research on my part. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.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 rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---