Gruff gives font-related error

Rails
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Hello Railslist,

I’m trying to get Gruff running on OSX Tiger (intel) with edge Rails.
I’ve installed ImageMagick, Rmagick, FreeType and all their
dependencies, or so I believe. (I’ve compiled them from source mostly,
following a recent tutorial for Rails and ImageMagick on Intel Macs)

While following the sample on the Gruff downloadpage (the one with the
fruit), Rails throws a RuntimeError: “Can’t measure text. Are the
fonts installed? Is the FreeType library installed?”

What do I need to do to fix this error?
Thanks in advance!

Gijs N.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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By the way, the tutorial I mentioned is:

But in http://topfunky.net/svn/plugins/gruff/lib/gruff/base.rb, I read
the following:

RMagick must be built with the Freetype libraries for this to work

properly.

In this other tutorial
(http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/install-osx.html), the DarwinPorts
FreeType library is preferred over the X11 version, could this be the
cause of my error?

Thanks…
Gijs

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ok, the solution is to install GhostScript
(sudo port install ghostscript)