phocoder-rb

Phocoder-rb is a ruby gem for easy interaction with the Phocoder image processing service. It allows you to easily add image handling to your app without needint to create or manage image processing infrastructure.

First you'll need to include the library and set your API key.

require 'phocoder'
Phocoder.api_key = 'sdg98lq4fc9ask2'

All calls in the Phocoder library either raise Phocoder::HTTPError or return a Phocoder::Response.

A Phocoder::Response can be used as follows:

response = Phocoder::Job.list
response.success?     # => true if the response code was 200 through 299
response.code         # => 200
response.body         # => the JSON-parsed body or raw body if unparseable
response.raw_body     # => the body pre-JSON-parsing
response.raw_response # => the raw Net::HTTP or Typhoeus response (see below for how to use Typhoeus)

To create a job you'd do something like this:

Phocoder::Job.create {
  :type => "ThumbnailJob",
  :input => "http://www.octolabs.com/assets/octologo.png",
  :thumbnails => [
    {
      :width => 100,
      :height => 100,
      :aspect_mode => 'preserve',
      :label => 'small'
    },
    {
      :width => 50,
      :height => 100,
      :aspect_mode => 'crop',
      :label => 'tiny'
    }
  ]
}

To get a list of your recent jobs you could do:

job_response = Phocoder::Job.list
jobs = job_response.body

Please see the Phocoder API documentation for more information about the details and options you can use when creating jobs.

By default this library will use Net::HTTP to make all API calls. You can change the backend or add your own:

require 'typhoeus'
Phocoder::HTTP.http_backend = Phocoder::HTTP::Typhoeus

require 'my_favorite_http_library'
Phocoder::HTTP.http_backend = MyFavoriteHTTPBackend

See the HTTP backends in this library to get started on your own.

A secondary options hash can be passed to any method call which will then be passed on to the HTTP backend. You can pass timeout (in milliseconds), headers, and params (will be added to the query string) to any of the backends. If you are using Typhoeus, see their documentation for further options. In the following example the timeout is set to one second:

Phocoder::Job.create({:input => '....', ...}, {:timeout => 1000})

Default options are passed to the HTTP backend. These can be retrieved and modified.

Phocoder::HTTP.default_options = {:timeout => 3000,
                                  :headers => {'Accept' => 'application/json',
                                               'Content-Type' => 'application/json'}}

• Check out the latest master to make sure the feature hasn't been implemented or the bug hasn't been fixed yet
• Check out the issue tracker to make sure someone already hasn't requested it and/or contributed it
• Fork the project
• Start a feature/bugfix branch
• Commit and push until you are happy with your contribution
• Make sure to add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
• Please try not to mess with the Rakefile, version, or history. If you want to have your own version, or is otherwise necessary, that is fine, but please isolate to its own commit so I can cherry-pick around it.

Copyright (c) 2010 Jeremy Green. See LICENSE.txt for further details.