This library is wrapper for the Exiftool command-line application (www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool) written by Phil Harvey. Read and write access is done in a clean OO manner.
An installation of the Exiftool command-line application. Instructions for installation you can find under www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/install.html .
First you need Exiftool (see under Requirements above). Then you can simply install the gem with
gem install mini_exiftool
respectively (on *nix sytems)
sudo gem install mini_exiftool
Alternative you can download the tarball or zip file and run
ruby setup.rb config ruby setup.rb setup sudo ruby setup.rb install
The code is also hostet in a git repository on Gitorious at gitorious.org/projects/mini_exiftool feel free to contribute!
Jan Friedrich <janfri26 AT gmail DOT com>
Copyright © 2007-2011 by Jan Friedrich
Licensed under terms of the GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, Version 2.1, February 1999 (see file COPYING for more details)
For further information about using MiniExiftool read the Tutorial and have a look at the examples in directory examples.