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Last edited Mar 12, 2009

Created on Mar 12, 2009

This example demonstrates a Flickr photo management system built with Ruby on Merb, using the Flickr API to fetch, validate, and update photo metadata. It shows a batch workflow that first retrieves photos by category tags, then verifies their existence and tags on Flickr, and finally updates stored attributes like title, description, and image sizes. The code relies on Flickr’s `flickr_photo` objects and the Merb ORM for database persistence, with tasks chained via Rake. The visualization highlights the procedural data-sync logic, emphasizing error handling and association management between photos and categories.

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