# ImageScience/attachment\_fu on MediaTemple

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/imagescience-attachment-fu-on-mediatemple/113515>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 1, 2007, 1:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/imagescience-attachment-fu-on-mediatemple/113515 "2007-09-01T01:07:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![mwalsh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/91b2a8/32.png) [@mwalsh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mwalsh)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2007, 1:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/imagescience-attachment-fu-on-mediatemple/113515/1 "2007-09-01T01:07:49Z")

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Hey all,

I’m attempting to get a small project running on MediaTemple using  
attachment\_fu on one of my models. I assumed that image\_science would be  
the  
way to go, since MediaTemple provides a customized version for their  
Rails  
Container. I installed it and all of the pre-reqs (hoe, etc) from the MT  
gem  
( [http://gems.mediatemple.net/](http://gems.mediatemple.net/)) server, and all appeared to be well.  
However, when I fire up irb and require ‘image\_science’ it barfs on the  
FreeImage.h include. I know that FreeImage needs to be installed for  
ImageScience to work, since ImageScience uses FreeImage for the actual  
processing. However, it appears that MT doesn’t have it installed. Has  
anyone managed to get this to work on MT?

Also, I thought about falling back to RMagick instead, but they don’t  
have a  
pre-compiled version for the container, and I can’t compile one because  
it  
can’t find ImageMagick.

Any ideas would be appreciated…

Thanks!

## – Matt W.

Thermal Creative  
[http://blog.thermalcreative.com](http://blog.thermalcreative.com)

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**Author:** ![mwalsh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/91b2a8/32.png) [@mwalsh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mwalsh)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2007, 2:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/imagescience-attachment-fu-on-mediatemple/113515/2 "2007-09-03T14:11:25Z")

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Have you tried calling their tech support?