# Problem Installing RMagick with Instant Rails on Windows **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [November 22, 2007, 1:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-installing-rmagick-with-instant-rails-on-windows/120990 "2007-11-22T13:10:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Walter\_Lockhart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@Walter\_Lockhart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Walter_Lockhart)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2007, 1:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-installing-rmagick-with-instant-rails-on-windows/120990/1 "2007-11-22T13:10:21Z")
I’m running Instant Rails 1.4 on Windows XP with SP2. I have downloaded the Windows binary version of RMagick from the RubyForge page. Specifically, I have downloaded: 1.14.1 binary gem for Ruby 1.8.5 (fixed for RubyGems 0.9.4) RMagick-1.14.1\_IM-6.3.0-7-Q8-2.zip I have removed any older versions of RMagick using: gem uninstall RMagick I have updated my version of rubygems. I executed the ImageMagick installer found in the zip file and selected the “Update executable search path” from the installation options. I then installed the gem: gem install rmagick --local and received the response: Successfully installed rmagick-1.14.1-unknown 1 gem installed Unfortunately, when I type the following at a Rails Console prompt: > > require ‘RMagick’ I receive the response: require 'RMagick’MissingSourceFile: no such file to load – RMagick Similarly, when I attempt to use RMagick within my Rails application (I use it to resize an uploaded image) I get the following message: Problems loading rmagickProcessor: no such file to load – RMagick When I place the line: require ‘RMagick’ in the application’s environment.rb the application fails with the message: ## ExitingC:/InstantRails/ruby/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/ custom\_require.rb:27:in `gem\_original\_require’: no such file to load RMagick (MissingSourceFile) I have been searching the Internet for days now and I still can’t seem to make progress. Can anyone out there please help me? Thanks in advance. Kind Regards Walter ---
**Author:** ![Walter\_Lockhart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@Walter\_Lockhart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Walter_Lockhart)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 9:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-installing-rmagick-with-instant-rails-on-windows/120990/2 "2007-11-25T21:07:24Z")
Thanks for posting that. I was just struggling with the installation of the gem. I upgraded to gem 0.9.4 and installed RMagick ok. BTW there is some also some information here: [http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/install-faq.html#win](http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/install-faq.html#win) Tonypm ---
**Author:** ![Walter\_Lockhart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@Walter\_Lockhart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Walter_Lockhart)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2007, 3:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-installing-rmagick-with-instant-rails-on-windows/120990/3 "2007-11-22T15:31:39Z")
I woud like to thank Robin Mayfield for indirectly resolving my similar issue with RMagick. RMagick is now installed and working. Here’s what I did: 1. Downloaded 0.9.4 RubyGems zip file. 2. Ran the setup.rb 3. From within the unzipped RMagic-win32 directory I ran: gem install rmagick-1.14.1-win32.gem --local I didn’t need to insert require ‘RMagick’ in the environment.rb file. Yeeha!! Apparently, RMagick doesn’t work with RubyGems 0.9.5. Thanks again. Regards Walter ---
**Author:** ![Walter\_Lockhart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@Walter\_Lockhart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Walter_Lockhart)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2007, 9:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-installing-rmagick-with-instant-rails-on-windows/120990/4 "2007-12-02T09:31:38Z")
I encountered the same problem. I do not know why this problem occurred. but at last i solved the problem. my note computer installed the same rmagick environment. it contains : all files in c:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems \rmagick-1.14.1-win32 and c:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\specifications\rmagick-1.14.1- win32.gemspec file. copy them to my new installation environment,and delete the rmagick-1.14.1-unknown floder and rmagick-1.14.1-win32.gemspec file. it is stupid, but doable. have a try! ---
**Author:** ![Walter\_Lockhart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@Walter\_Lockhart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Walter_Lockhart)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 9:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-installing-rmagick-with-instant-rails-on-windows/120990/5 "2007-12-01T21:43:41Z")
thanks for the post. i downgraded rubygem from 0.9.5. to 0.9.4 on ruby 1.8.5 to gets things rolling again. for anybody struggling into mongrel or webrick “warning: already initialized constant OPTIONS” after that: complete your gem installations. there’s is one missing. 😉 see: [http://www.dansketcher.com/2007/05/07/warning-already-initialized-constant-options](http://www.dansketcher.com/2007/05/07/warning-already-initialized-constant-options) ---
**Author:** ![Walter\_Lockhart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@Walter\_Lockhart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Walter_Lockhart)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 4:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-installing-rmagick-with-instant-rails-on-windows/120990/6 "2008-01-05T04:27:15Z")
Try to restart your computer. Worked for me 🙂 On Dec 2 2007, 12:31 am, “removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![Walter\_Lockhart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@Walter\_Lockhart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Walter_Lockhart)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2008, 9:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-installing-rmagick-with-instant-rails-on-windows/120990/7 "2008-06-08T09:13:43Z")
Walter Lockhart wrote: > I woud like to thank Robin Mayfield for indirectly resolving my > similar issue with RMagick. > > RMagick is now installed and working. > > Here’s what I did: > > 1. Downloaded 0.9.4 RubyGems zip file. > > 2. Ran the setup.rb > > 3. From within the unzipped RMagic-win32 directory I ran: gem install > rmagick-1.14.1-win32.gem --local > > I didn’t need to insert require ‘RMagick’ in the environment.rb file. > > Yeeha!! > > Apparently, RMagick doesn’t work with RubyGems 0.9.5. > > Thanks again. > > Regards > > Walter Hi Walter, It seems to me RMagick doesn’t work with RubyGems 1.0.1 either. Does any one know? Can someone please confirm? I got “loading RmagickProcessor: no such file to load – RMagick” message in the log. If I add: require ‘rubygems’ require ‘RMagick’ to the environment.rb, My server does not start up successful and the following message is in the server log: `gem\_original\_require’: no such file to load – RMagick (MissingSourceFile) I used rmagick-2.3.0-mswin32 and ImageMagick-6.4.0-Q8. I’m looking forward for any thoughts/suggestions. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Walter\_Lockhart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@Walter\_Lockhart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Walter_Lockhart)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 4:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-installing-rmagick-with-instant-rails-on-windows/120990/8 "2008-06-24T04:51:23Z")
I’m having the same problem with Gem 1.1.1 if I type into the IRB > > require ‘rubygems’ > > =\> false (this is normal it means that rubygems was allready loaded) > > require ‘rmagick’ > > =\> true But when i try to start my server using ‘simple captcha’ plugin i get the error /Applications/Aptana Studio/plugins/org.jruby\_1.1.0.5965\_RC2p2/lib/ ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:27:in `require’: no such file to load – RMagick (MissingSourceFile) I have RMagick installed, rails just can’t find it. I also have a similar problem with ruby-openid. can someone please help??