[Radiant] [ANN]Paperclipped—Paperclip based assets extension

[Keith Bingman]

Once again I have an assets extension. This one is not entirely  
compatible with my previous extension, but you can, with a little work  
switch it over. I will try to get an update script one of these days.

Paperclip is a new file management plugin from Thoughtbot which has a   
few advantages over attachment_fu: it doesn't use RMagick, which uses  
a lot of RAM and is a bit of overkill for just making thumbnails.  
Instead it directly uses ImageMagick, making it much easier to  
install. It also offers very flexible asset paths, and using this, I  
have made the same file structure as attachment_fu. I have also  
successfully adapted the db tables from the old extension without too  
much trouble.

To install it, just run rake radiant:extensions:migrate, then run rake  
radiant:extensions:paperclipped:update to install the javascripts,  
images and css.

Once installed, you get a new Tab with the entire assets library, a  
Bucket  à la Mephisto (though only the concept is stolen) and a  
search. You can also easily attach assets to any page and directly  
upload them to a page.

I have quite a few tags, as well. The standards, including url, title,  
caption, etc., but also an images:each tag, which will cycle through  
each image associated with a page. This makes simple Lightbox or other  
javascript based galleries very easy to set up.

The extension requires 0.6.7 because of the Haml and Shards support.  
Trunk is better due to a slight (known and fixed) bug when running  
extensions in dev mode.

Hosted on Git for your forking pleasure.

http://github.com/kbingman/paperclipped/tree/master

Feedback, praise and complaints gladdly accepted.

Keith Bingman

keith at keithbingman.com
http://keithbingman.com