Display meetup photos in ruby.sg

[TayKangSheng]

Up to date photos gives the public a glimpse of what is happening inside the community. "A picture is worth a thousand words" and the photos can save us many explanation of what is the community like. Since we are starting physical meetups again and we are taking photos, we should display them on ruby.sg

Requirements:

1. Lightweight and easy to maintain
2. Does not cost money

Open to comments and suggestions 🙇 ; and open to volunteers who want to work on this.

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Some quick ideas I came up with:

• Option 1: Compress the photos and put them inside app/assets folder. Create a /photos page and display the photos.

  • Pros: Simple solution
  • Cons: We have to hardcode all the photos into the html using the asset helper because we cannot programmatically fetch all the files inside app/assets

• Option 2: Compress the photos and upload them into the ruby.sg database as a blob. Create a /photos page to show the images and a /photo/:id endpoint to serve the images.

  • Pros: We can programmatically display all images as long as they are in the database
  • Cons: We might need some sort of "admin page" to upload the files into the database

• Option 3: Use a cloud storage service and use ActiveStorage / Shrine

  • Pros: The render speed of the page will be faster since the urls are stored in the database.
  • Cons: We need some sort of "admin page" to upload the files. Cloud storage costs money.