# Anyone using JRuby with Rmagick?

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**Created:** [March 5, 2009, 10:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anyone-using-jruby-with-rmagick/162114 "2009-03-05T22:06:07Z")\
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I thought I’d be racy this week and convert a rather large application  
from Ruby on Rails to JRuby using Netbeans.  
Learned a lot. Not all the gems come across but the ‘show stopper’ for  
me was the Rmagick gem which I obviously use to store my photos in the  
database.  
JRuby claims to have a Rmagick4j but it after ‘Googling’ I found it  
doesn’t work and the project seems to be on someone’s shelf that  
doesn’t really want it.  
Is there anyone out there saving photos to a database and sizing them  
in JRuby?  
Sure appreciate any ideas or links to a smart JRuby person.  
Thank you,  
David

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**Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 10:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anyone-using-jruby-with-rmagick/162114/2 "2009-03-05T22:10:14Z")

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You should go for image\_voodoo, not RMagick →   
[http://blog.nicksieger.com/articles/2008/03/27/imagevoodoo-0-1-released](http://blog.nicksieger.com/articles/2008/03/27/imagevoodoo-0-1-released)

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Maurício Linhares  
[http://alinhavado.wordpress.com/](http://alinhavado.wordpress.com/) (pt-br) | [http://blog.codevader.com/](http://blog.codevader.com/)  
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On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 6:05 PM, InventoryTrackers

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**Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 10:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anyone-using-jruby-with-rmagick/162114/3 "2009-03-05T22:17:23Z")

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we use mini\_magick fine with JRuby

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Maurício Linhares

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**Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 11:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anyone-using-jruby-with-rmagick/162114/4 "2009-03-05T23:00:58Z")

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On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:05 PM, InventoryTrackers  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> in JRuby?  
> Sure appreciate any ideas or links to a smart JRuby person.

RMagick4j [1](http://code.google.com/p/rmagick4j/) is in decent shape, it was a summer of code project last  
year. That said, there still could be some things that might not work.  
Please let us know on the JRuby lists [2](http://xircles.codehaus.org/projects/jruby/lists) if you encounter uses where  
it doesn’t work. See [3](http://advent2008.hackruby.com/past/2008/12/19/ruby_graphs_and_java_monitoring_with_jruby) for an example that uses RMagick4j.

/Nick