Installing RMagick on OS X
It is what Muad’dib said: “fear is the mind-killer” (full quote below). Oh I feared installing RMagick on OS X. The fear nearly paralyzed me (well not really). Turns out I had nothing to fear.
RMagick is an image library for Ruby. If you want to “do things” with images in a Ruby on Rails app, you need it. It’s especially handy for rescaling and thumbnail generation. Good old attachment_fu uses it and so should you. Even the memory leaks are a thing of the past.
Installation though. Installation is a bitch. Or so I thought. It is actually completely straightforward.
Visit this page on rubyforge and scroll to the ‘os x installer package’. Download the latest version–I used 1.1.1. Drop to the Terminal and read the README, then execute the script. It will download everything and install it all for you. It’s magick! Lame puns aside, this script is a life saver. It executed without a hitch and before I knew it, I was in business. Easy breezy!
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
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