LoremImageWare

Rack middleware for proxying requests to lorempixel.com

This mounts routing in your Rack stack so that paths like /lorem/image/400/200 will serve a 400x200 random image from lorempixel.com.

The middleware is primarily useful because it will cache responses from lorempixel so that after a few page loads, images should load much faster. Without such local caching you will be stuck hammering their server on every page load, and waiting a few seconds for images to fill in.

It is recommended to only load the middleware in development environments.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'lorem-image-ware'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install lorem-image-ware

Mount in your app stack like:

use LoremImageWare::Middleware

If you wish to serve off a directory other than the default /lorem, pass the :root option:

use LoremImageWare::Middleware, :root => "/random_images"

There is a small Helpers module you can include for generating lorem image tags for you. For example in Sinatra classical:

helpers LoremImageWare::Helpers

# In a view
lorem_image_tag(:height => 400, :width => 200, :tag => "sports", :class => "some-class")

The helper will add a class of lorem-image to tags for you, as well as populate the dimensions and set inline height and width styling on the image.

Use cache-control and ETag support for browser caching

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request