# Strange issue with rmagick

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strange-issue-with-rmagick/126850>\
**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [January 22, 2008, 8:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strange-issue-with-rmagick/126850 "2008-01-22T20:05:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![vince](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vince](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vince)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2008, 8:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/strange-issue-with-rmagick/126850/1 "2008-01-22T20:05:10Z")

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I’m having a problem on my production site where rmagick won’t resize  
images. The code works on my local machne so I’m wondering what the  
issue could be.

WORKS:

> > Development: Rails 2.0.2, Rmagick 2.1.0, Imagemagick 6.3.7, OS: Debian Sid  
> > vince@debiansid:~$ identify -version  
> > Version: ImageMagick 6.3.7 12/30/07 Q16 [http://www.imagemagick.org](http://www.imagemagick.org)  
> > Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2008 ImageMagick Studio LLC

NOT RESIZING:

> > Production: Rails 2.0.2 Rmagick 2.1.0 Imagemagick 6.3.8 OS: Ubuntu Gutsy  
> > vince@gutsygibbon:~$ identify -version  
> > Version: ImageMagick 6.3.8 01/22/08 Q16 [http://www.imagemagick.org](http://www.imagemagick.org)  
> > Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2008 ImageMagick Studio LLC

The code is the same on both machines. I don’t recall how I compiled  
Imagemagick on Debian but on Ubuntu I ran sudo apt-get build-dep  
imagemagick, downloaded the tar, ran …/configure make and sudo make  
install.

Can anyone give me a pointer as to where to look? I’m pretty much  
stumped…

-Vince

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