# Imagemagic / rmagic dmg for OSX?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/imagemagic-rmagic-dmg-for-osx/58834>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 26, 2006, 1:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/imagemagic-rmagic-dmg-for-osx/58834 "2006-04-26T13:30:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![larrywright](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/9fc348/32.png) [@larrywright](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/larrywright)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 1:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/imagemagic-rmagic-dmg-for-osx/58834/1 "2006-04-26T13:30:37Z")

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Is there a pre-built disk image for rmagic on OSX (including image magic  
and  
all the other pre-requisites)? I’ve seen that it comes on the  
Locomotive  
image but I don’t want to replace my entire development environment.

Does anybody have a sense of how reliable it is on OSX? I’ve seen some  
fairly negative comments when googling, but that’s not the best way to  
get a  
fair and balanced picture.

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**Author:** ![larrywright](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/9fc348/32.png) [@larrywright](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/larrywright)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 3:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/imagemagic-rmagic-dmg-for-osx/58834/2 "2006-04-26T15:04:39Z")

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Larry W. wrote:

> Is there a pre-built disk image for rmagic on OSX (including image magic  
> and  
> all the other pre-requisites)? I’ve seen that it comes on the  
> Locomotive  
> image but I don’t want to replace my entire development environment.
> 
> Does anybody have a sense of how reliable it is on OSX? I’ve seen some  
> fairly negative comments when googling, but that’s not the best way to  
> get a  
> fair and balanced picture.

There is no DMG for RMagick but DarwinPorts has RMagick 1.9.2 and  
ImageMagick 6.2.4 available. (Ref:  
[Painfully Obvious → Link: RMagick](http://www.andrewdupont.net/2006/04/13/link-rmagick/))  
Also see:  
[thoughts from left field: March 2006](http://lfthoughts.blogspot.com/2006_03_01_lfthoughts_archive.html) about  
installing RMagick on OS X.

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**Author:** ![larrywright](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/9fc348/32.png) [@larrywright](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/larrywright)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 7:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/imagemagic-rmagic-dmg-for-osx/58834/3 "2006-04-26T19:40:14Z")

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I second Tim’s link of  
[http://lfthoughts.blogspot.com/2006\_03\_01\_lfthoughts\_archive.html](http://lfthoughts.blogspot.com/2006_03_01_lfthoughts_archive.html)

Those steps worked perfect for me.

As for being reliable: I haven’t had any issues as of yet. I have a form  
on  
my page where people can upload pictures, etc… \*Magick works great for  
creating the thumbnails and such. It is a bit slow, but I’m thinking  
that’s  
my code and not \*Magick’s fault. I’m getting more and more into  
ImageMagick  
as of late. Sorry for the blog spam, but if you want to read a little  
more  
about the issues and successes I’ve had it with it, check it out  
[http://antrover.com/blog/articles/tag/imagemagick](http://antrover.com/blog/articles/tag/imagemagick) Who knows, it might  
help  
you out. 🙂

-Dave H.

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**Author:** ![larrywright](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/9fc348/32.png) [@larrywright](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/larrywright)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 9:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/imagemagic-rmagic-dmg-for-osx/58834/4 "2006-04-26T21:04:29Z")

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I used darwin ports and it worked like a charm.

I have had no issues with \*Magick. It has turned out to be way more  
reliable than the alternatives.

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**Author:** ![larrywright](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/9fc348/32.png) [@larrywright](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/larrywright)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 11:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/imagemagic-rmagic-dmg-for-osx/58834/5 "2006-04-26T23:42:59Z")

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I installed everything from scratch and that takes some time.  
But I must say that for me as well it works as advertised.  
In combination with file\_column.

I saw that people had memory problems but that was explained.  
I watched my memory and there was no problem at all.  
Now I am not in production yet so I have to see.

But I wanted people to know because some people are negative  
about RMagick and I think thats not fair.

And then the disk image.  
How would one make that in a busy /usr/local  
It has to be a clean install right?

Probably a package for Apple’s installer would be better

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**Author:** ![larrywright](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/9fc348/32.png) [@larrywright](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/larrywright)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/imagemagic-rmagic-dmg-for-osx/58834/6 "2006-04-26T20:11:30Z")

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Also, check Locomotive, you can use that w/ ImageMagick built-in, and  
it’s very fast for running apps on your Mac.

[http://locomotive.raaum.org/home/show/HomePage](http://locomotive.raaum.org/home/show/HomePage)

-ray