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I''m going to be generating thumbnails from user uploaded images. I''m looking around at the libraries available to do this sort of thing and there are three that look promising. ImageScience -- http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/ImageScience.html Mini-Magick -- http://rubyforge.org/projects/mini-magick/ RMagick -- http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/ It looks like a lot of people are

Hi, I have mongrel 0.3.14, with ruby 1.8.5, rails 1.1.6 and mongrel cluster 0.2.1, on debian sage 3.1 with apache 2.0, and fastthread 0.6.1. I am load balancing 3 mongrel processes using the random port trick. When I start mongrel the processes have about 60MB, but after some hour of usage the memory ballons upto more than 180MB and the site becomes terribly slow. Forcing me to restart mongrel

Hi, which is the best way to upload an image, keep that and also make a thumbnail? The images should not be stored in the database, but as normal image files in a specific directory. I think that for the thumbnail i should use rmagick, but for the upload ? (something which work with and without javascript, in every browser) Thanks :) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''m working on a photo gallery and I''m using File_column to handle the uploads of the files and create my thumbnails, but does anyone here have any idea how to have a watermark (opaque text maybe) placed over one of the versions? Any ideas on how to go about this would be great. Even if it''s just straight RMagick code, that would be fine too. Thanks in advance for the

I''ve been getting a bunch of reports about the latest Rails "leaking" memory more than before. Please fill out this survey: 1) Have you noticed an increase in memory usage with the latest Rails 1.2? 2) Have you changed anything else in your application? a) No, really, don''t be a dumbass like the lusers you hate. Go look at your svn logs and really figure out if

I am having issues loading imagemagick and rmagick on webfaction. I have installed a rails app called balder that organizes images. my main problem is that i can''t seem to upoload the image sthrough balder. balder uses imagemagick and rmagick when i use the console and do this: irb(main):003:0> require ''RMagick'' => nil I don''t think rmagick is

I need a way to upload an image and display it without using any of the plugins that use rmagic. I have used the plugins (file_column, fleximage) which both use rmagic and gave me problems (never got fleximage to work) Thanks in advance - K --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails:

I''ve tried migrating acts_as_attachment to attachment_fu (just to see if I could replace RMagick with ImageScience+FreeImage), but the quality of the thumbnails is just horrendous, blurred beyond recognition (downscaling a 1280x1024 to a few considerably smaller thumbnails). Changing attachment_fu to use RMagick again and the thumbnails were crispy sharp again. I was wondering

I am using rmagick to convert files stored as a tiff to either pdf or jpg for display to the user. A snippet of test code from the controller follows. It works OK. ( it does need a sanitizer ) require RMagick def pdf @sdoc = Sdoc.find(params[:id]) @fname = ''/var/www/images/'' + @sdoc.fname @nf = Magick::ImageList.new(@fname)

i have a rails app with a form that allows uploading an image file. I take the image file and read it into rmagick to verify that it''s an image. For some reason I can''t catch an exception thrown by rmagick inside the app. After an invalid image file is uploaded the process just hangs. I have to kill mongrel and restart to use the app again. img =

Has anyone implemented a captcha with ruby on rails and rmagick? I tried this example: http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoSecureFormsWithNoisyImages but I got an error: undefined method `size'' for #<NoisyImage:0x34d8070> Thank you -------------------------------------------------- Rodrigo Dominguez ? Iplan Networks ???????????????Datos Personales

I followed the instructions on Mike Clark''s weblog and everything works perfectly except the thumbnail column in my DB is alwas NULL. I''m using S3 as my storage system. Anyone else having this issue with thumbnails? has_attachment :content_type => :image, :storage => :s3, :max_size => 500.kilobytes, :resize_to =>

hi ya all, i am tryin to deploy imagescience on a small app i made. and i found no good tutorial/introduction on how to do so... i installed the gem and all the dependencies but when I try to call the ImageScience object: uninitialized constant ImageScience some code sample can save me. thanks all, K -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello people, I''m using squeegy fleximage for my site right now and having some difficulty to achieve some things. Updates photos are saved in created at date generated fom like : '' /images/2008/05/14/22.png '' . However this route is not accessible through the browser and I don''t know how to add it in my routes.rb knowing that the dates will change everyday.

Hi there, Is there any real alternative to RMagick? I need to compose some texts to an image, so I don''t really need anything really complex. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I have a file rmg.rb: require ''RMagick'' include Magick cat = ImageList.new("prod.jpg") cat.display exit The file prod.jpg is in the same directory as this file above. I execute the following: ruby rmg.rb I get the following output: /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/RMagick.rb:1377:in `read'': unable to open image `'': No such file or directory:

I get the following error when I try to install Rmagic (via gem) on Linux. Do I need to install anyting before installing rmagic? This worked seamlessly on windows. What the best way to install it on Linux. I am on RedHat ES 3. /thanks -thila Attempting local installation of ''rmagick'' Local gem file not found: rmagick*.gem Attempting remote installation of

Hi, everyone! I have been recently hit by ImageMagick/Rmagick memory leak issues. I know I can lesson the problem by manually starting up GC each time I use Rmagick library but ImageMagick seems to use way too much memory nevertheless. (on shared hosting setup anyway) Is there a decent replacement for ImageMagick library? I used to think ImageMagick was quite efficient because its

I am using RMagick in my app and am having problems in deployment. The deployment machine (Fedora Core 5) can''t find RMagick unless I change the "require" syntax from that used on the dev machine (OS X). And the dev machine doesn''t like the syntax that works on the deployment server! To wit: [OS X] $ script/console Loading development environment. >> require_gem

Hi Has anyone had success with setting image resolution with Rmagick. I am resizing an uploaded image with Rmagick, problem is it keeps the original images resolution and I want to change it to 72dpi. <<<<<< code example >>>>>>>>>> # these are the various techniques I have tried when and after reading the file, trying any or all of them does