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Ruby

Dave Faliskie
Dave Faliskie
17,793 Points
Posted by Dave Faliskie
Dave Faliskie
17,793 Points

generate a picture based on text input

Hi,

I have a rails app which will take an input string such as a quote. I have it set up now so that a user can input a quote and the quote gets saved to a database. What I would like to do is Automatically generate an image with the quote one it. The original image would be something plane like a solid background, then the uploaded quote would be written on it and the new image would contain the quote.

The end goal for this to to use the images to push to social media, so the image needs to be saved with the quote in it.

Any ideas on how to do this would be AWESOME!!

1 Answer

gregsmith5
gregsmith5
32,615 Points

Check out RMagick, the Ruby API for ImageMagick. It can do what you want.