# Ruby 1.8.4, Rails 1.1 and Rmagick? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [April 11, 2006, 10:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-4-rails-1-1-and-rmagick/57546 "2006-04-11T22:04:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![subimage](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@subimage](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/subimage)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 10:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-4-rails-1-1-and-rmagick/57546/1 "2006-04-11T22:04:30Z")
Someone mentioned that Rmagick doesn’t work properly on this setup (Ruby 1.8.4, Rails 1.1) Is this true? ---
**Author:** ![subimage](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@subimage](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/subimage)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 10:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-4-rails-1-1-and-rmagick/57546/2 "2006-04-11T22:10:49Z")
It does not on windows. The binary is compiled against rails 1.8.2 and will cause a ton of rails problems. I’m not sure if it works on linux/unix. ---
**Author:** ![subimage](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@subimage](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/subimage)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 1:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-4-rails-1-1-and-rmagick/57546/3 "2006-04-12T01:36:16Z")
I’m happily running Ruby 1.8.4, Rails 1.1.2, and RMagick 1.10.1 on OS X and FreeBSD without any problems. Pete Y. [http://9cays.com](http://9cays.com) ---
**Author:** ![subimage](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@subimage](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/subimage)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 1:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-4-rails-1-1-and-rmagick/57546/4 "2006-04-12T01:57:45Z")
How about running Rails 1.1.2 with Ruby 1.8.2? ---
**Author:** ![subimage](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@subimage](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/subimage)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 10:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-4-rails-1-1-and-rmagick/57546/5 "2006-04-11T22:21:36Z")
subimage interactive wrote: > Someone mentioned that Rmagick doesn’t work properly on this setup (Ruby > 1.8.4, Rails 1.1) > > Is this true? That’s been my experience. Running RMagick in Rails with Ruby 1.8.4 caused errors when tab characters are used in an RHTML view. It’s something to do with a method that’s overloaded by both RMagick and the ERb interpreter, or something like that. I downgraded to Ruby 1.8.2 and things have been working fine. Jeff C.man ---
**Author:** ![subimage](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@subimage](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/subimage)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 2:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-4-rails-1-1-and-rmagick/57546/6 "2006-04-12T02:01:20Z")
subimage interactive wrote: > How about running Rails 1.1.2 with Ruby 1.8.2? I’m running Rails 1.1.2 with Ruby 1.8.2 and haven’t experienced any problems so far. The 1.8.4/RMagick issues are Windows-only. Jeff ---
**Author:** ![subimage](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@subimage](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/subimage)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 5:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-4-rails-1-1-and-rmagick/57546/7 "2006-04-12T05:21:47Z")
Hi Jeff ~ > That’s been my experience. Running RMagick in Rails with Ruby 1.8.4 > caused errors when tab characters are used in an RHTML view. It’s > something to do with a method that’s overloaded by both RMagick and the > ERb interpreter, or something like that. The tab character errors have nothing to do with RMagick from what I understand. I just did a quick run through my site cleaning up the tabs (which Linux had no issue with) and voila… It really is a better practice to use spaces in place of tabs. I have EditPlus on Windows set up to do two spaces when I hit tab instead of the tab character. ~ Ben On 4/11/06, Jeff C.man [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > – > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). > > * * * > > Rails mailing list > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails) – Ben R. [http://www.benr75.com](http://www.benr75.com) ---
**Author:** ![subimage](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@subimage](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/subimage)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 11:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-4-rails-1-1-and-rmagick/57546/8 "2006-04-12T23:20:45Z")
Yes but does Minimagick run on XP and Unix? I routinely develop across XP and OSX and deploy on UNIX. Rmagick is the only thing I know that works (semi-ok) on all 3. ---
**Author:** ![subimage](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@subimage](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/subimage)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 8:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-8-4-rails-1-1-and-rmagick/57546/9 "2006-04-12T20:50:42Z")
Forget Rmagick, it’s a pain in the ass to compile all dependencies for (on Mac OS X) and it’s very hungry on memory when handling images. I find Minimagick much ‘leaner’, it’s a nice wrapper for the commandline versions. This way, you don’t have to worry about the compile hell that is RMagick, en bypass any memory/garbage collection issue. [http://journal.gleepglop.com/articles/2005/12/04/imagemagick-the-ruby-way](http://journal.gleepglop.com/articles/2005/12/04/imagemagick-the-ruby-way) Just my practical, humble opinion (a.k.a. two cents) Ben R. wrote: > Hi Jeff ~ > > > That’s been my experience. Running RMagick in Rails with Ruby 1.8.4 > > caused errors when tab characters are used in an RHTML view. It’s > > something to do with a method that’s overloaded by both RMagick and the > > ERb interpreter, or something like that. > > The tab character errors have nothing to do with RMagick from what I > understand. I just did a quick run through my site cleaning up the > tabs (which Linux had no issue with) and voila… It really is a > better practice to use spaces in place of tabs. I have EditPlus on > Windows set up to do two spaces when I hit tab instead of the tab > character. > > ~ Ben > > On 4/11/06, Jeff C.man [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > – > > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). > > > > * * * > > > > Rails mailing list > > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails) > > – > Ben R. > [http://www.benr75.com](http://www.benr75.com)