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RMagick on Mac OS X

If you’ve read this it still holds, installing RMagick is easier on Debian than it is on Mac OS X. But spare yourself a lot of trouble and just go to Locomotive and download the Bundle for it (I wish I checked it before).

I’ve compiled both ImageMagick and RMagick myself and after some painful hours of tinkering with files spawned all over the filesystem I managed to make it detect the gem. But when I try to use it, it crashes Mongrel! So do yourself a favor and install the bundle along with Locomotive (which is darn useful).


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  1. Daniel Fischer
    Published at May 6th, 2007 at 11:08 am

    Locomotive seems so limiting though. I think you should wipe out anything related to rmagick and imagemagick on your computer, and try to install it purely from darwin ports || compile it yourself.

    There are probably conflicts or something, because it really isn’t “too hard”.

  2. mlopes
    Published at May 7th, 2007 at 12:09 am

    Daniel,

    I did try that for once. I had like 3 installations of ImageMagick. But then I just saw the bundle and it started working in 3 minutes that I simply gave up doing anything else.

    Why do you think Locomotive is limiting?