# RMagick on Media Temple (gs)

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-on-media-temple-gs/88073>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 7, 2007, 10:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-on-media-temple-gs/88073 "2007-03-07T22:30:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sean\_JSRucker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/7993a0/32.png) [@Sean\_JSRucker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Sean_JSRucker)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 10:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-on-media-temple-gs/88073/1 "2007-03-07T22:30:10Z")

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Does anyone have any experience getting RMagick up and running on a  
Media Temple (gs)?

I’m still not sure if I need to build GraphicsMagick myself, and if  
so, how because I don’t have root access???

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**Author:** ![Sean\_JSRucker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/7993a0/32.png) [@Sean\_JSRucker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Sean_JSRucker)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 2:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-on-media-temple-gs/88073/2 "2007-04-15T14:26:20Z")

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This should not be a problem. I jusy built ffmeg (for use with  
gallery2) and it worked fine.

you just need the to ssh in…

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**Author:** ![Sean\_JSRucker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/7993a0/32.png) [@Sean\_JSRucker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Sean_JSRucker)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2007, 4:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-on-media-temple-gs/88073/3 "2007-09-02T16:50:17Z")

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This is a bump for anyone using (gs) and any kind of image processing…  
I’ve yet to get a response from MT about whether or not image\_science is  
available, but in the meantime I’m just using MiniMagick, which is  
running  
very well. Rick O.'s excellent attachment\_fu has a processing backend  
for  
MiniMagick, so it’s a simple switch to use that instead. Just install  
the  
MiniMagick gem on your (gs) account, set :processor =\> :MiniMagick, and  
off  
you go! MiniMagick basically wraps mogrify, so it should be much  
friendlier  
to memory than RMagick.

Matt

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**Author:** ![Sean\_JSRucker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/7993a0/32.png) [@Sean\_JSRucker](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Sean_JSRucker)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2007, 11:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rmagick-on-media-temple-gs/88073/4 "2007-04-15T23:58:14Z")

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Hi,

On 08/03/07, Sean J. Rucker [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Does anyone have any experience getting RMagick up and running on a  
> Media Temple (gs)?
> 
> I’m still not sure if I need to build GraphicsMagick myself, and if  
> so, how because I don’t have root access???

I too am on MT on their GS plan. They have a gem which you can install  
and all works well, until you actually use it. RMagick is known to be  
very leaky and loading a single large image file (3mb) will bring down  
your container (I only have 64mb). There’s a couple of alternatives,  
Image Science ([http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/ImageScience.html](http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/ImageScience.html)) is  
built specifically because of this memory issue. Alas, it requires  
Free Image which is not a ruby program so there’s no gem and it’s also  
a pain to get going. I’ve put in for a feature request for Image  
Science to be installed. In the meantime, I’m just going to be  
shelling out and run mogrify  
([ImageMagick – Command-line Tools: Mogrify](http://www.imagemagick.org/script/mogrify.php))

–  
Cheers,  
Serdar  
Kýlýç[http://weblog.kilic.net/](http://weblog.kilic.net/)