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Creating images with Ruby + HTML/CSS API

Mike Coutermarsh on March 10, 2019

Ever wonder how trendy websites like Product Hunt or Medium generate those fancy Twitter screenshots? // Detect dark theme var iframe = doc...
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Ben Halpern

Hey Mike, I’ve been following this and I think we’ll be users/customers for DEV but rewriting our current solution hasn’t been a priority.

Feel free to nudge me on this front 😋

What we’re currently doing:

github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to/...

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Mike Coutermarsh

Yeah!! I know a Ruby dev who could submit a PR to help with the upgrade. ✨

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Ben Halpern

I didn't come out and say it but your motivations and our laziness aligns pretty well here.

If you want to re-implement our social images, I'll sign up and get us a key. 😄

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Mike Coutermarsh

Expect to see a PR sometime this week. 😀

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Igor Kasyanchuk

I have created such gem github.com/igorkasyanchuk/omg_image to create such images without 3rd party services