# Help resizing mages **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [January 10, 2009, 10:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-resizing-mages/157411 "2009-01-10T22:10:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![captaffy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@captaffy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/captaffy)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 10:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-resizing-mages/157411/1 "2009-01-10T22:10:43Z")
I have a web in development. I need to upload some images and to resize them in a form. I am able to upload some imags thanks to paperclip, but I have problems resizing this images. I am becaming mad trying to make work ImageMagik and Rmagick and I think it will became a lot worse once I find a host a put the web in production. So I wonder if its another way to resize images. I have used other option in a PHP web. It uses a mix of flash and PHP. The flash gives a tool to resize the image exactly like the user wants, and the PHP makes the reak work. I will appreciate any help. ---
**Author:** ![captaffy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@captaffy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/captaffy)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 11:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-resizing-mages/157411/2 "2009-01-10T23:56:40Z")
This is simple trumpet blowing but there is a gem I wrote called thumbnailer (as in ‘gem install thumbnailer’) that resizes images into boxes with out without transparency, it can also scale images down to a maximum width or height. The project is here [http://rubyforge.org/projects/thumbnailer/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/thumbnailer/) and the docs can be seen here [http://thumbnailer.rubyforge.org/doc/index.html](http://thumbnailer.rubyforge.org/doc/index.html) At some point I intend to announce that I have written it but there is so much to be worked on. Requires gd2 and exifr.