Peppy Heppy

I am working on a little app (link coming soon) with a friend of mine in an effort to practice my rails and now Rmagick skills since my day job doesn't allow me the opportunity.

One of the things that I am building is an logo generator so I need to have an image manipulator/generator of some sort. I have used ImageMagick on many projects in the past so I looked forward to spitting out the classy logos uswing Rmagick.

Like most open-souce installs on OSX and Linux there were some issues that came up along the way.

I first ran the following command on my OSX terminal but got a couple of errors.

# sudo gem install RMagick
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Can't find Magick-config or GraphicsMagick-config program.
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I fixed this error by installing the imagemagick-dev version as opposed to imagemagick.

Then when I tried it again I received this error:

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Can't install RMagick. Can't find libMagick or one of the dependent libraries
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I resolved this error by searching google and finding this thread so I told fink (one of my osx package managers) that I wanted it to build imagemagick from source with the following command:

# fink --no-use-binary-dist install imagemagick-dev

After I rebuilt ImageMagick form source and inclused all of the dependent libraries i was able to successfully run the following command with no problems:

# sudo gem install RMagick

It worked! Yeah!