Installing ImageMagick and MiniMagick on Windows
- 31st July , 2007 by Sam in Miscellany, Ruby on Rails
- 1 comment
I know this has been documented in other places so this is mostly for my own sanity. I want to use the attachment_fu plug-in by Rick Olson for my rails app to upload user avatars. I also want to resize the images and create a series of smaller thumbnails for use throughout the site.
Steps to install ImageMagick
- Download the Windows binary of ImageMagick. I used ImageMagick-6.3.5-4-Q16-windows-dll.exe
- Run the ImageMagick installer (The file you just downloaded) and accept the defaults.
- Open a command prompt to verify the install was successful
- Type >convert logo: logo.miff
- Type >imdisplay logo.miff
- If all went well with the install a little picture of blue wizard should appear.
Steps to install MiniMagick
- Install the gem from the command prompt with the command gem install mini_magick. You may be asked to install a few required dependencies. Say yes.
- Wait for the download and install to complete.
You should be good now to install attachment_fu, but that is beyond the scope of this article. Use the links below for more information
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August 6th, 2007 at 7:35 am
Sam,
Thanks for your comment about validates_unlinke plugin
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