there is a job to process photos and it is called from the controller

app/controllers/status_messages_controller.rb

@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ class StatusMessagesController < ApplicationController
           end
         end
         photos.update_all(:pending => false, :public => public_flag)
+        photos.each{|x| x.queue_post_process}
       end
 
       if request.env['HTTP_REFERER'].include?("people")

app/models/jobs/process_photo.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#   Copyright (c) 2010, Diaspora Inc.  This file is
+#   licensed under the Affero General Public License version 3 or later.  See
+#   the COPYRIGHT file.
+
+
+module Job
+  class ProcessPhoto < Base 
+    @queue = :photos
+    def self.perform_delegate(photo_id)
+      Photo.find(photo_id).image.post_process
+    end
+  end
+end

app/models/photo.rb

@@ -85,6 +85,10 @@ class Photo < Post
     {:thumb_url => url(:thumb_medium), :id => id, :album_id => nil}
   end
 
+  def queue_processing_job
+    Resque.enqueue(Job::ProcessPhoto, self.id)
+  end
+
   def mutable?
     true
   end

app/views/shared/_add_contact.html.haml

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 -#   licensed under the Affero General Public License version 3 or later.  See
 -#   the COPYRIGHT file.
 
-
 %h5
   = t('aspects.manage.add_a_new_contact')
   = info_text(t('.enter_a_diaspora_username'))
@@ -22,4 +21,3 @@
   %li.error.hidden
     #message
       = link_to t('.know_email'), new_user_invitation_path
-

app/views/shared/_stream_element.html.haml

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
         = render 'shared/reshare', :aspects => reshare_aspects, :post => post
       = link_to image_tag('deletelabel.png'), status_message_path(post), :confirm => t('are_you_sure'), :method => :delete, :remote => true, :class => "delete", :title => t('delete')
 
-  .thumb_small= person_image_link(post.author, :size => :thumb_small)
+  = person_image_link(post.author, :size => :thumb_small)
 
   .content
     .from

app/views/status_messages/_status_message.haml

@@ -9,10 +9,10 @@
     - if photos.size > 1
       - if photos.size >= 8
         - for photo in photos[1..8]
-          .thumb_small= link_to (image_tag photo.url(:thumb_small)), photo_path(photo)
+          = link_to (image_tag photo.url(:thumb_small), :class => 'thumb_small'), photo_path(photo)
       - else
         - for photo in photos[1..photos.size]
-          .thumb_small= link_to (image_tag photo.url(:thumb_small)), photo_path(photo)
+          = link_to (image_tag photo.url(:thumb_small), :class => 'thumb_small'), photo_path(photo)
   = markdownify(post.text, :youtube_maps => post[:youtube_titles])
 
 - else

app/views/status_messages/show.mobile.haml

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
     = markdownify(@status_message.text, :youtube_maps => @status_message[:youtube_titles])
 
   - for photo in @status_message.photos
-    .thumb_small= link_to (image_tag photo.url(:thumb_small)), photo.url(:thumb_medium)
+    = link_to (image_tag photo.url(:thumb_small), :class => 'thumb_small'), photo.url(:thumb_medium)
 
   .info
     %span.time

public/stylesheets/sass/application.sass

@@ -1071,7 +1071,7 @@ label
 img.thumb_small
   :max-height 50px
   :max-width 50px
-img.thumb_mediumimg
+img.thumb_medium
   :max-height 100px
   :max-width 100px
 img.thumb_large
@@ -1079,7 +1079,7 @@ img.thumb_large
   :max-width 300px
 img.scaled_full
   :max-height 700px
-  :width 700px
+  :max-width 700px
 
 #thumbnails
   a

spec/models/jobs/process_photo_spec.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+require 'spec_helper'
+
+describe Job::ProcessPhoto do
+  it 'calls post_process on an image uploader' do
+    photo = mock()
+    photo.should_receive(:image).and_return(photo)
+    photo.should_receive(:post_process)
+    Photo.should_receive(:find).with(1).and_return(photo)
+    Job::ProcessPhoto.perform(1)
+  end
+end

spec/models/photo_spec.rb

@@ -155,6 +155,13 @@ describe Photo do
     end
   end
 
+  describe '#queue_processing_job' do
+    it 'should queue a resque job to process the images' do
+      Resque.should_receive(:enqueue).with(Job::ProcessPhoto, @photo.id)
+      @photo.queue_processing_job
+    end
+  end
+
   context "deletion" do
     before do
       @status_message = @user.build_post(:status_message, :text => "", :to => @aspect.id)