unsubscribe On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Michelle Pace <michelle / michellepace.com>wrote: > Thanks Jon, I followed the instructions on phosphor-escence. > Unfortunately I couldn't get the rmagick gem to install(see attachment). > If anyone has any ideas I'd be real interested to hear them. > > But I did get ImageMagick to install and instead (of using rmagick) I > just issue ImageMagick commands directly from my ruby code. Not as nice > but it works. > > For completeness of this post here are my exact steps: > > [0] > I installed ruby192 as well as the DevKit using > http://rubyinstaller.org/ on windows 7. > > [1] > Installed ImageMagick-6.7.1-10-Q16-windows-dll.exe > * downloaded from > http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php#windows > * I installed to "C:\ImageMagick-6.7.1-Q16" (no spaces!!) > * ticked "Add application directory to your system path" > * ticked "Install development headers & libraries for C and C++" > > [2] > I confirmed ImageMagick works via command prompt with: > * % C:\ImageMagick-6.7.1-Q16\convert.exe convert.tif -resize 10% new.png > > [?] > I attempted to instal the 'rmagick' gem with the below command. I got an > error. (see attachment) and gave up. > * % gem install rmagick --platform=ruby -- > --with-opt-lib=C:/ImageMagick-6.7.1-Q16/lib > --with-opt-include=C:/ImageMagick-6.7.1-Q16/include > > [4] > Instead of using RMagick, I just call the ImageMagick CMD command > directly from my ruby script:- > if (system('C:\ImageMagick-6.7.1-Q16\convert.exe convert.tif > new.png')) > puts "yahoo! converting tif to png worked" > else > puts "oof it failed" > end > > [lastly] > If I could have gotten the rmagick gem to install, this is how I would > do the same command in [4] but in nicer ruby code: > require 'RMagick' > jpg = Magick::ImageList.new("doc.jpg") > thumb = jpg.scale(300, 300) > thumb.write "doc.png" > > > Cheers Michelle > > Attachments: > http://www.ruby-forum.com/attachment/6540/gem_make.out > > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > >