# Install mini\_magick.gem

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/install-mini-magick-gem/86965>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 27, 2007, 7:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/install-mini-magick-gem/86965 "2007-02-27T07:04:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![jonathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@jonathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jonathan)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 7:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/install-mini-magick-gem/86965/1 "2007-02-27T07:04:33Z")

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In search of a way to resize images using ruby, I was pointed to  
[http://rubyforge.org/projects/mini-magick/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/mini-magick/) which looks very promising.  
I downloaded the .gem file and it’s sitting on my desktop (mac OSX). I  
have never used ruby gems before, and have no idea what to do with it.  
Any help here will be much appreciated 🙂

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**Author:** ![jonathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@jonathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jonathan)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 9:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/install-mini-magick-gem/86965/2 "2007-02-27T09:43:15Z")

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On 27 Feb 2007, at 15:04, Jonathan D. wrote:

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You will need to install rubygems first - a library for Ruby that  
handles package management via gems. Google for Rubygems, read the  
manual and go from there. Once you have rubygems setup correctly you  
wont need the gem file itself because rubygems downloads it  
automagically.

Alex G.

Bioinformatics Center  
Kyoto University

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**Author:** ![jonathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@jonathan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jonathan)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2007, 7:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/install-mini-magick-gem/86965/3 "2007-02-27T19:23:45Z")

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Alex G. wrote:

> On 27 Feb 2007, at 15:04, Jonathan D. wrote:
> 
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> You will need to install rubygems first - a library for Ruby that  
> handles package management via gems. Google for Rubygems, read the  
> manual and go from there. Once you have rubygems setup correctly you  
> wont need the gem file itself because rubygems downloads it  
> automagically.
> 
> Alex G.
> 
> Bioinformatics Center  
> Kyoto University

thanks!  
i stumbled around a bit but I think I got it installed alright and didnt  
break anything ^-^