# Uninitialized constant Magick Please help!

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/uninitialized-constant-magick-please-help/60743>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 17, 2006, 5:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/uninitialized-constant-magick-please-help/60743 "2006-05-17T05:10:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![eBusiness\_Consultin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@eBusiness\_Consultin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/eBusiness_Consultin)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 5:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/uninitialized-constant-magick-please-help/60743/1 "2006-05-17T05:10:13Z")

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Dear Rail experts,

thank you for such a resourceful list.

I am working on an application using Rails 1.1 [REVISION=4240] whereas  
my server has Rails 1.0 installed.

I recently decided to give file\_column a try and everything works fine  
except I am getting the following error:

“uninitialized constant Magick”

I have tried setting environment variables,

ENV[‘LD\_LIBRARY\_PATH’] = ‘/usr/local/lib’

I have also tried reinstalling RMagick and file\_column but to no  
avail. I have been researched the mailing list and found a couple of  
instances where people were getting the same error and tried everything  
they recommended but I still keep getting the errors.

Is it because I am running Rails 1.1 for this particular application?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Tim

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**Author:** ![eBusiness\_Consultin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@eBusiness\_Consultin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/eBusiness_Consultin)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 10:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/uninitialized-constant-magick-please-help/60743/2 "2006-05-17T10:27:12Z")

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Not sure I can help you, but what platform are you running on (I had  
some issues when transferring onto Ubuntu)?

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**Author:** ![eBusiness\_Consultin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@eBusiness\_Consultin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/eBusiness_Consultin)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 7:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/uninitialized-constant-magick-please-help/60743/3 "2006-05-17T19:34:53Z")

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Hi Chris,  
Thank you for your reply.  
I am using RHEL 4 and the interesting thing is that RMagick works by  
itself but not with the file\_column.

ANy ideas are appreciated greatly.

Thanks  
Tim

Chris T [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: Not sure I can help you,  
but what platform are you running on (I had  
some issues when transferring onto Ubuntu)?