Hello all,
I'm fairly new to RoR, have done many different tutorials, but am now trying to build something on my own. I would like to create a portfolio gallery. I plan on using customized thumbs, not scaled, but custom cropped and resized in Photoshop. The reason for this is these will not be photos but portfolio pieces and I would like the thumbs to focus on a vital part of the piece. These will then link to the full sized image (maybe a lightbox plugin or something).
Now I've been searching for how'to's and tutorials, but they all mention using plugins such as "file_column" or "Attachment-fu" along with an image processor (ImageMagick and such). Do I need to use these tools to achieve my goal? Seeing as I will upload a full sized image and a thumbnail image, I'm thinking I don't need the image processor for this. But the plugins look like they will help with file storage options. I would appreciate any input on this (code examples would be fantastic. =P) .thanks!
