An even easier way to install RMagick for Ruby on Rails development
Published: June 20th, 2007Tired of long boring tutorials on how to install RMagick for Ruby on Rails development? Well, if you happen to use OSX, you’re in luck for a 5 minute solution!
Download darwin ports:
http://darwinports.com/download/
Open the image, install it. Set it up (should take no longer than 5 minutes)
Then type:
sudo port install imagemagick
Wait 10 minutes.
Done.
sudo gem install rmagick
Done.
You have imagemagick, it’s dependencies, and now a gem that will allow you to wrap it.
Much easier than this tutorial
[...] I came across this great piece of news and suddenly things clicked into place. [...]
[...] Daniel Fischer has a quick guide on Darwin Ports and the RMagick instalation, looks easy enough but I wanted more control over the installation so I ended up following Marc-André Cournoyer who wrote a very handy tutorial on installing everything by hand which I followed to the letter and amazingly it all worked out ok in the end. It seems making sure the fonts are on the right place did the trick. [...]
Thanks for this…
Easy way to install darwin ports:
curl -O http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/DarwinPorts-1.3.2/DarwinPorts-1.3.2.tar.gz
tar xzvf DarwinPorts-1.3.2.tar.gz
cd DarwinPorts-1.3.2
./configure –prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install
cd ..
After this, I still wasn’t able to install ImageMagick using ports - I would get the error
No index(es) found! Have you synced your source indexes?
Then I found this:
sudo port selfupdate
Everything is magically fixed now! Hope that helps someone :)
After installing the image of ports I can no loonger use my ruby gems it says they aint present. What is this problem
Did you set up your paths?
The RMagick command did not work for me, but using the rmagick-osx-installer seemed to have workd: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=12&release_id=21634
I had two errors though:
—
Summary: There were 2 failures
libpng was not installed successfully
libjpeg was installed successfully
ghostscript was installed successfully
ghostscript-fonts-std was installed successfully
FreeType was installed successfully
libwmf was not installed successfully
ImageMagick was installed successfully
RMagick was installed successfully
Removing rm_install_tmp directory…Done
Ready. Set. Go.
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