Photish
Ruby static site generator that builds photo galleries from folders of photos and YAML metadata.
Photish is a Ruby static site generator for photo galleries. Photos are grouped by folder, metadata for each photo can be written in a YAML file alongside it, and the templates that render the pages can use any engine that Tilt implements. photish generate writes a complete static website, which the README says can be hosted on NGINX, Apache HTTP Server or GitHub Pages, and photish host serves it locally while working on it.
The gem is the main install route, and Debian and RPM packages, Linux binaries and Windows binaries also exist.
Worth knowing
The README lists ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick for image conversion and Exiftool for Exif metadata as separate dependencies that the packages do not install. It also says not all features are available in the native packages.
Identity
- Status
- Stub
- Maintainer
- Henry Lawson3
- Maintained by
- Individual
- First release
- 20164
Rendering and deploy
- Runs as
- Dev only, Static files2
- Rendering
- Static output2
- Install with
- gem install photish2
Releases
Adoption
Sources
- 2026-10-23: links, Written in, License, GitHub stars
api.github.com/repos/henrylawson/photish - 2026-10-23: links, Categories, Runtime, Minimum runtime, Install with, Runs as, Rendering, Templating, Content storage
github.com/henrylawson/photish/blob/master/README.md - 2026-10-23: Maintainer, License model
raw.githubusercontent.com/henrylawson/photish/master/LICENSE.txt - 2026-10-23: First release, Current major version, Last release
api.github.com/repos/henrylawson/photish/releases - 2026-10-23: Contributors
api.github.com/repos/henrylawson/photish/contributors - 2026-10-25: Dependent repositories
packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/rubygems.org/packages/photish