# Can't find RMagick on Windows?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-find-rmagick-on-windows/147744>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 4, 2008, 11:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-find-rmagick-on-windows/147744 "2008-09-04T23:23:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![brian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@brian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/brian)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2008, 11:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-find-rmagick-on-windows/147744/1 "2008-09-04T23:23:50Z")

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I followed the RMagick installation instructions for Windows and  
everything appeared to go fine. I added the

require ‘rubygems’  
require ‘RMagick’

lines to my controller. I get a MissingSourceFile error, with the  
msg : no such file to load – RMagick

I’m using InstantRails2.0, which uses Rails 2.0.2 and Ruby 1.8.6. I’m  
pretty new to Ruby and Rails, so I don’t know what other info to  
provide or what kinds of commands I could run to get more info on my  
environment.

Would appreciate any help!

thanks

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**Author:** ![brian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@brian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/brian)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 3:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-find-rmagick-on-windows/147744/2 "2008-09-05T15:46:17Z")

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bumping for hopefully a fresh look in the morning, hope that’s ok

also, I have validated that I can find RMagick via irb running from  
the directory of this app in InstantRails. That was not the case at  
first, because I initially installed it into the system-wide ruby  
space, which is apparently not visible from apps running under  
InstantRails. So I installed RMagick into the InstantRails2-0/rails-  
apps/myapp space under InstantRails and hoped that would clear up this  
problem, but it hasn’t.