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.

Ruby 1.9 or higher and an installation of the Exiftool command-line application at least version 7.65. If you run on Ruby 1.8 or with a prior exiftool version install mini_exiftool version 1.x.x. Instructions for installation you can find under www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/install.html .

Alternatively Wil Gieseler has bundled a meta-gem that eliminates the need for a seperate Exiftool installation. Have a look at github.com/wilg/mini_exiftool_vendored or rubygems.org/gems/mini_exiftool_vendored .

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

If you need support of older versione (see Requirements above)

gem install --version "< 2.0.0" 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 and github at github.com/janfri/mini_exiftool feel free to contribute!

Jan Friedrich <janfri26@gmail.com>

Copyright © 2007-2013 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.