Headshot - Easy web cam integration for Ruby on Rails

[Diwa del Mundo]

Hey Everyone,

Sorry for the shameless promotion, I just want to share my gem called Headshot that will allow you to capture your users' photos with minimal effort. It might be useful for some of your projects.

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Documentation / Demo:

http://headshot.hypermediasoft.com

Github:

https://github.com/diwadm/headshot

Code (View):

<%= headshot_default_config(Rails.application.config.session_options[:key], headshot_capture_path) %>

<%= headshot_camera %>

<%= headshot_snap_button('Shoot') %>

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Comments and suggestions are appreciated.

Regards,

Diwa

[Paul Gallagher]

Cool stuff! 

Have you thought about also adding/trying a pure HTML5 approach? I'm not sure how good the support is yet for it to be viable in real usage though (http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/getusermedia/intro/)

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[Diwa del Mundo]

Hi Paul,

Thanks! Yes, I've thought of using an HTML5 approach. However, I find that most browsers don't support the getUserMedia() API yet so it might not be ready for real usage. I believe it only works reliably on Chrome for now. It will certainly change on the next several months as browser developers improve support for it.

For older browsers, Flash seems to be the way to go for now. I see that there will be bridging JS frameworks for media capture, similar to HTML5 video player frameworks like video.js, that will provide a consistent API for accessing media devices using HTML5 media capture API and will degrade to Flash if the user's browser doesn't support the newer APIs.

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Dave del Mundo

[Boon Kiat, Han]

agree

on top, I believe the Flash runtime is steeply on the way out, even on desktops as HTML5 fires up

but for certain clients, this gem should be a peachy enhancement to their current getup

getUserMedia(not the whole WebRTC suite) isn't a very huge API ,,, I'm definitely using it and believe it will be generally available by 2014

I honestly see people should get in with their own custom code

I think samples abound... but no dominant library yet??

BK

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From: Paul Gallagher <gallagh...@gmail.com>
To: Singapore Ruby Brigade <singap...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2013 12:07 AM
Subject: Re: [SRB] Headshot - Easy web cam integration for Ruby on Rails

[Meng Weng Wong]

On 13 Jan, 2013, at 12:00 AM, Diwa del Mundo <diw...@gmail.com> wrote:

Sorry for the shameless promotion

If you are sorry, then you are not being shameless.