Is there a pre-built disk image for rmagic on OSX (including image magic and all the other pre-requisites)? I''ve seen that it comes on the Locomotive image but I don''t want to replace my entire development environment. Does anybody have a sense of how reliable it is on OSX? I''ve seen some fairly negative comments when googling, but that''s not the best way to get a fair and balanced picture. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060426/09375841/attachment.html
Larry White wrote:> Is there a pre-built disk image for rmagic on OSX (including image magic > and > all the other pre-requisites)? I''ve seen that it comes on the > Locomotive > image but I don''t want to replace my entire development environment. > > Does anybody have a sense of how reliable it is on OSX? I''ve seen some > fairly negative comments when googling, but that''s not the best way to > get a > fair and balanced picture.There is no DMG for RMagick but DarwinPorts has RMagick 1.9.2 and ImageMagick 6.2.4 available. (Ref: http://www.andrewdupont.net/2006/04/13/link-rmagick/) Also see: http://lfthoughts.blogspot.com/2006_03_01_lfthoughts_archive.html about installing RMagick on OS X. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
I second Tim''s link of http://lfthoughts.blogspot.com/2006_03_01_lfthoughts_archive.html Those steps worked perfect for me. As for being reliable: I haven''t had any issues as of yet. I have a form on my page where people can upload pictures, etc... *Magick works great for creating the thumbnails and such. It is a bit slow, but I''m thinking that''s my code and not *Magick''s fault. I''m getting more and more into ImageMagick as of late. Sorry for the blog spam, but if you want to read a little more about the issues and successes I''ve had it with it, check it out http://antrover.com/blog/articles/tag/imagemagick Who knows, it might help you out. :-) -Dave Hoefler On 4/26/06, Tim Hunter <rmagick@gmail.com> wrote:> > Larry White wrote: > > Is there a pre-built disk image for rmagic on OSX (including image magic > > and > > all the other pre-requisites)? I''ve seen that it comes on the > > Locomotive > > image but I don''t want to replace my entire development environment. > > > > Does anybody have a sense of how reliable it is on OSX? I''ve seen some > > fairly negative comments when googling, but that''s not the best way to > > get a > > fair and balanced picture. > > There is no DMG for RMagick but DarwinPorts has RMagick 1.9.2 and > ImageMagick 6.2.4 available. (Ref: > http://www.andrewdupont.net/2006/04/13/link-rmagick/) > Also see: > http://lfthoughts.blogspot.com/2006_03_01_lfthoughts_archive.html about > installing RMagick on OS X. > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060426/779e4ae7/attachment.html
Also, check Locomotive, you can use that w/ ImageMagick built-in, and it''s very fast for running apps on your Mac. http://locomotive.raaum.org/home/show/HomePage -ray
I used darwin ports and it worked like a charm. I have had no issues with *Magick. It has turned out to be way more reliable than the alternatives. On 26/04/2006, at 11:27 PM, Larry White wrote:> Is there a pre-built disk image for rmagic on OSX (including image > magic and all the other pre-requisites)? I''ve seen that it comes > on the Locomotive image but I don''t want to replace my entire > development environment. > > Does anybody have a sense of how reliable it is on OSX? I''ve seen > some fairly negative comments when googling, but that''s not the > best way to get a fair and balanced picture. > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
I installed everything from scratch and that takes some time. But I must say that for me as well it works as advertised. In combination with file_column. I saw that people had memory problems but that was explained. I watched my memory and there was no problem at all. Now I am not in production yet so I have to see. But I wanted people to know because some people are negative about RMagick and I think thats not fair. And then the disk image. How would one make that in a busy /usr/local It has to be a clean install right? Probably a package for Apple''s installer would be better -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.