On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 18:22 +0900, Phil Tomson wrote:
> I find that Italy is a target-rich environment for taking pictures and 
> I'm taking lots.  I need to resize the pics (make them smaller, like 320X240) 
> so I can put them on the web.  Doing this by hand with iPhoto is a bit of 
> a pain.  Can anyone suggest a way of doing this using a Ruby script?  

You mention iPhoto, so I'll take that as a sign that you are a Mac OS X
user. But in case ruby-gtk2 and RMagick can be loaded on such a system
or in case others may be interested...

I have been working on a little application I call WebGal--a gtk2-based
GUI tool for creating web galleries. WebGal has functions for adding and
removing images from a gallery, rotating source image files, titling,
dating, captioning, and making notes on images. Right now it's still
getting its legs, but it does the basic job just fine (standard caveats
related to development software apply).

Using extremely simple templates and CSS, WebGal will create all the
necessary files so that you have a working HTML web gallery, complete
with a thumbnail index page and easy navigate from one image to the next
within the gallery.

Settings are available to indicate the size of thumbnails and final
display images.

If you're interested it's at http://www.andsoforth.com/geek/WebGal.html

 -Michael C. Libby, www.andsoforth.com