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Cloudinary gem

Cloudinary GEM for Ruby on Rails integration

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The Cloudinary Ruby on Rails SDK allows you to quickly and easily integrate your application with Cloudinary. Effortlessly optimize, transform, upload and manage your cloud's assets. The project is written primarily in Ruby, first published in 2012. Key topics include: cloudinary, cloudinary-gem, cloudinary-ruby-sdk, cloudinary-sdk, hacktoberfest.

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Cloudinary Ruby on Rails SDK

About

The Cloudinary Ruby on Rails SDK allows you to quickly and easily integrate your application with Cloudinary.
Effortlessly optimize, transform, upload and manage your cloud's assets.

Note

This Readme provides basic installation and usage information. For the complete documentation, see
the Ruby on Rails SDK Guide.

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Key Features

Version Support

SDK VersionRuby 1.9.3Ruby 2.xRuby 3.xRuby 4.x
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SDK VersionRails 5.xRails 6.xRails 7.xRails 8.x
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Installation

bash
gem install cloudinary

Usage

Setup

ruby
require 'cloudinary'

Transform and Optimize Assets

ruby
cl_image_tag("sample.jpg", width: 100, height: 150, crop: "fill")

Upload

ruby
Cloudinary::Uploader.upload("my_picture.jpg")

CarrierWave Integration

Active Storage Integration

Security options

Samples

Contributions

Get Help

If you run into an issue or have a question, you can either:

About Cloudinary

Cloudinary is a powerful media API for websites and mobile apps alike, Cloudinary enables developers to efficiently
manage, transform, optimize, and deliver images and videos through multiple CDNs. Ultimately, viewers enjoy responsive
and personalized visual-media experiences—irrespective of the viewing device.

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Licence

Released under the MIT license.

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