# MiniExiftool 0.4.0 released

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**Created:** [July 24, 2007, 9:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/miniexiftool-0-4-0-released/110277 "2007-07-24T21:03:56Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 9:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/miniexiftool-0-4-0-released/110277/1 "2007-07-24T21:03:56Z")

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MiniExiftool version 0.4.0 released! Second try. 😉

[http://miniexiftool.rubyforge.org/](http://miniexiftool.rubyforge.org/)

MiniExiftool is a wrapper library for the Exiftool command-line  
application (www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/) written by Phil  
Harvay. One of the completest tool for reading and writing meta  
informations (EXIF, IPTC, XMP) on image files which supports many file  
formats including raw formats.

Installation:  
gem install mini\_exiftool

or alternative download the tarball and run  
ruby setup config  
ruby setup setup  
sudo ruby setup install

Tutorial:  
[http://miniexiftool.rubyforge.org/files/Tutorial.html](http://miniexiftool.rubyforge.org/files/Tutorial.html)

Changes:

- MiniExiftool::Error inherits now from StandardError
- Alternative installation via setup.rb
- Bugfix  
Saving of non-readed tags doesn’t work with tags with hyphen  
Thanks to Robin Romahn for reporting the bug
- New methods: MiniExiftool.all\_tags and MiniExiftool.original\_tag
- Original tag names (all and writable) are now saved via pstore in a  
file for better performance