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Gallerist is a web application to browse libraries of Apple Photos and iPhoto.It is built on top ofSinatra.

• One or more Photos or iPhoto libraries (.photoslibrary or.photolibrarydirectories)
• Ruby 2.2+

OS X 10.9 and above ship with Ruby 2.0. You can useHomebrew to installa current Ruby version on older versions of OS X.

Gallerist can be simply installed as a Ruby gem.

$ gem install gallerist

Note: You might need to usesudo if you’re installing into your systemRuby, e.g. when not using rbenv or RVM.

If you want to run the current development code please use Git to clone therepository.

$ bin/gallerist~/Pictures/Photos\Library.photoslibrary

After that the application is served on port 9292 by default. You can open itby simply browsing tohttp://localhost:9292.

Further command-line arguments are available, seegallerist --help for moreinformation.

• iPhoto libraries work to a certain degree as iPhoto’s events are notlisted, only albums.
• Gallerist works on a copy of the library databases, i.e. changes to theoriginal library will not be reflected instantly. You will have to restartthe web app first.

• Support for internal categories like photo stream and videos
• Support for moments and places
• Performance improvements