# RMagick 5th anniversary **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [July 22, 2008, 1:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-5th-anniversary/143746 "2008-07-22T13:19:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![timhunter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/71e660/32.png) [@timhunter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/timhunter)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2008, 1:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-5th-anniversary/143746/1 "2008-07-22T13:19:32Z")
Today is the 5th anniversary of the first appearance of RMagick on RubyForge. On July 22, 2003, a week after RubyForge started, Tom C. approved the RMagick project and I uploaded RMagick 1.2.2. I started RMagick because I wanted to learn Ruby and my wife wanted me to make a web photo gallery. After working on it for most of 2002 I decided to share it with the community. RMagick has succeeded beyond my wildest dreams. In the beginning I thought maybe 10 other people could get some use out of it. According to RubyForge there has been over 167,000 downloads from the RMagick project. I was thrilled by the first download and have been thrilled by every download since. I’d like to thank everybody who has ever used RMagick in an program (whether it was in a production business application or a solution to a RubyQuiz), blogged about RMagick, reported a bug, submitted a patch, sent me an email, commented in the RMagick Forum, posted an answer to a question about RMagick on ruby-lang, packaged RMagick for a Linux distro, answered my questions about Ruby, or gave me advice. Thanks to Kaspar S. and Brett DiFrischia, the guys who put RMagick on Windows. Thanks to Hal F., Michael Still, David Berube, and the other writers who featured RMagick in their Ruby books. Thanks to John Christy, creator of ImageMagick, and Bob Friesenhahn, who maintains GraphicsMagick and who helped me get RMagick off the ground. Thanks to the guy who made a presentation at Google and mentioned RMagick in passing. Thanks to RMagick’s critics. To paraphrase an old show business saying, I don’t care what you write about RMagick as long as you spell the name right. Thanks to the handful of people who’ve offered me a job, a thank-you gift, or a deposit in my (non-existent) “tip jar.” I can’t accept any of these things but I appreciate the offers nevertheless! Finally, thanks to Matz, Nobu, Koichi, and the other Ruby maintainers who have worked so hard so that I could have so much fun with Ruby. Tim ---
**Author:** ![timhunter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/71e660/32.png) [@timhunter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/timhunter)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2008, 2:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-5th-anniversary/143746/2 "2008-07-22T14:43:30Z")
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Tim H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Today is the 5th anniversary of the first appearance of RMagick on > RubyForge. Well done! > Finally, thanks to Matz, Nobu, Koichi, and the other Ruby maintainers > who have worked so hard so that I could have so much fun with Ruby. That was good to read, thank you for sharing 🙂 Mikel ---
**Author:** ![timhunter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/71e660/32.png) [@timhunter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/timhunter)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2008, 2:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-5th-anniversary/143746/3 "2008-07-22T14:52:24Z")
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Mikel L. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Mikel > > – > [http://lindsaar.net/](http://lindsaar.net/) > Rails, RSpec and Life blog… Nice stmts, well said! ahhhhh, forgot to say that today is also my birthday! So, Happy birthday to RMagick (did I spell it correctly?) and I. I guess good things happens on July 22! 🙂 🙂 🙂 Victor ---
**Author:** ![timhunter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/71e660/32.png) [@timhunter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/timhunter)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2008, 8:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-5th-anniversary/143746/4 "2008-07-22T20:38:35Z")
Well done, Tim! I do love RMagick, specially the draw class. Serabe ---
**Author:** ![timhunter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/71e660/32.png) [@timhunter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/timhunter)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 1:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-5th-anniversary/143746/5 "2008-07-23T01:41:19Z")
Tim H. wrote: > Today is the 5th anniversary of the first appearance of RMagick on > RubyForge. Thanks for Rmagick. Still works like a charm with gruff. -R ---
**Author:** ![timhunter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/71e660/32.png) [@timhunter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/timhunter)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2008, 11:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-5th-anniversary/143746/6 "2008-07-22T23:50:02Z")
woot woot go Tim, go! What I like most about RMagick is the online-docu. Especially the SVG ducky. (One day I am gonna have a SVG doggie, a kitten, a frog, a horse, a … )