# Mini\_magick vs image\_science

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mini-magick-vs-image-science/87200>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [February 28, 2007, 8:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mini-magick-vs-image-science/87200 "2007-02-28T20:45:06Z")\
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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 28, 2007, 8:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mini-magick-vs-image-science/87200/1 "2007-02-28T20:45:06Z")

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I simply want to resize images. Which is easier to install/use and uses  
less memory?

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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 28, 2007, 8:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mini-magick-vs-image-science/87200/2 "2007-02-28T20:46:44Z")

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oh, and I mean to install mini\_magick or image\_science themselves, and  
all their required programs and whatnot.

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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 28, 2007, 9:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mini-magick-vs-image-science/87200/3 "2007-02-28T21:07:06Z")

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On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Jonathan D. wrote:

> oh, and I mean to install mini\_magick or image\_science themselves, and  
> all their required programs and whatnot.

depends on what you have installed already. do you have image magick  
installed?

-a

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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 28, 2007, 9:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mini-magick-vs-image-science/87200/4 "2007-02-28T21:12:16Z")

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unknown wrote:

> On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Jonathan D. wrote:
> 
> > oh, and I mean to install mini\_magick or image\_science themselves, and  
> > all their required programs and whatnot.
> 
> depends on what you have installed already. do you have image magick  
> installed?
> 
> -a

I don’t have anything installed 😃

I have mac osx, so I have ruby, and I installed rubygems, but I don’t  
have any rubygems installed [and have never used any before]

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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:** [March 1, 2007, 4:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mini-magick-vs-image-science/87200/5 "2007-03-01T16:50:00Z")

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Jonathan D. wrote:

> unknown wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Jonathan D. wrote:
> > 
> > > oh, and I mean to install mini\_magick or image\_science themselves, and  
> > > all their required programs and whatnot.
> > 
> > depends on what you have installed already. do you have image magick  
> > installed?
> > 
> > -a
> 
> I don’t have anything installed 😃
> 
> I have mac osx, so I have ruby, and I installed rubygems, but I don’t  
> have any rubygems installed [and have never used any before]

I’ve never used mini\_magick, but I understand that it’s a wrapper around  
ImageMagick’s mogrify command. There’s a Mac OS X binary for ImageMagick  
here: [ImageMagick – Download](http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php). It may be  
as simple as installing the ImageMagick binary and then installing the  
mini\_magick gem.