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The universal paperclip

Working in a dual Ruby web stack framework has it’s perks. Today I wanted to use Paperclip in my Merb app as well as my Rails app. So ten minutes later I packaged up Paperclip as a gem and tweaked it ever so slightly to work on both Rails and Merb. The hardest thing was getting the manifest right.

It just goes to prove how well designed and extracted plugins like Thinking Sphinx and Paperclip are in order to allow me to do this so quickly.

Gem can be found here if you’re interested. Any bugs let me know.

2 Responses to “The universal paperclip”

CSessions Graciously said:
This is really great, thanks for your efforts. 2 questions: is there anything ActiveRecord-specific or will it work for Datamapper w/o tweaks? Is there a rake install to build the gem, or is this meant to be cloned directly into the gems folder?
April 11th, 2008 at 08:01 PM

CSessions Graciously said:
This is really great, thanks for your efforts. 2 questions: is there anything ActiveRecord-specific or will it work for Datamapper w/o tweaks? Is there a rake install to build the gem, or is this meant to be cloned directly into the gems folder?
April 11th, 2008 at 08:01 PM

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