Mikuru image gallery


Mikuru – named after Asahina Mikuru from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya – is an extremely simple image gallery generator. Its key features are:

  • Easy to use and easy to set up.
  • No dependencies on databases.
  • The generated gallery has a simple, to the point, quick and easy to user interface.

I wrote this because I went to Abunai last weekend, and I took 150 pictures. I didn’t feel like setting up a full blown gallery system such as Gallery, so I wrote this simple fire-and-forget image gallery generator.

How does it work?

You put a bunch of pictures in a folder, run Mikuru, and it’ll generate an ‘index.html’ as well as a set of thumbnails. There are no other generated files. Simply upload index.html, the thumbnails and the pictures to a web server, and you’re ready to go.

Here’s an example usage session:

$ ls
DSCN001.JPG   DSCN002.JPG   DSCN003.JPG
DSCN004.JPG   DSCN005.JPG   DSCN006.JPG
$ mikuru
MKDIR      thumbnails
WRITE      thumbnails/DSCN001.JPG
WRITE      thumbnails/DSCN002.JPG
WRITE      thumbnails/DSCN003.JPG
WRITE      thumbnails/DSCN004.JPG
WRITE      thumbnails/DSCN005.JPG
WRITE      thumbnails/DSCN006.JPG
WRITE      index.html
$ scp -r * www.somehost.com:public_html/my_gallery/

How does it look like?

Click here for a demo image gallery.

Download

Version 1.0.0
Requires Ruby and RMagick.
This software is BSD licensed.