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Install RMagick and ImageMagick on Leopard OS X, quickly and simply

15 February 2009

RMagick is a Ruby interface that allows access to the ImageMagick image processing library. When I started out developing in Ruby on Rails, installing RMagick was quite an endeavour, which was one of the reasons I used ImageSciene in preference. The installation has now become very simple indeed.

Go to the RMagick download page, and download the rmagick-osx-installer (at the time of writing, this was rm_install-1.2.1.zip)

Open a terminal window, and enter the following command (Leopard will download RMagick to the Downloads directory, and automatically unzip it there)

sudo ruby ~/Downloads/rm_install-1/rm_install.rb

And thats it! I was very impressed with its simplicity this time round.

Comments

dogface

This might be of interest http://github.com/maddox/magick-installer/tree/master

term paper

Seems to have worked for me. Been searching for this quite awhile. Thanks for posting this tutorial!

car games

Thanks for the reference link to github.

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Jodi

What a joy to find soemone else who thinks this way.