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I am having some serious trouble installing ImageMagick and RMagick on my Windows 7 computer.

I was just wondering if there were any other easier to setup alternatives that work with Ruby on Rails and allow image re-sizing and cropping?

Lunatik
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The Ruby Toolbox has a big list of Image Processing tools you could try:

https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/categories/image_processing

If you're just having trouble with RMagick, maybe try Mini Magick?

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  • Thanks for your reply and the suggested alternatives! The real nightmare is trying to install ImageMagick and it's dependancies on Windows. I am seriously debating getting a Mac just to use homebrew to install it - Does anyone know if this makes it significantly easier? – Tom Pinchen Aug 31 '12 at 21:53
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    You don't have to pay money for mac, just use ubuntu! – emrahbasman Aug 31 '12 at 22:00
  • I've used image_science gem with the FreeImage library on Mac OS X and Linux, precisely because RMagick is such a pain to get working. I have no experience with it on Windows, so YMMV, but it seems possible. http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/requirements.html http://rubygems.org/gems/image_science – SciPhi Aug 31 '12 at 22:22