On Jul 24, 2007, at 21:18 , [email protected] wrote:
whatever, it’s totally related and helps others who might have similar
issues.
I’m sorry you feel I’m being a jerk. I don’t mean to be. Mailing
lists are to help people solve problems, and sometimes the way to
solve the problem is to help the person find the appropriate forum
for their question. Please note that I did provide you with links to
two resources where you might find a solution to your issue.
There are plenty of RMagick install questions here.
And most of them should be addressed in other forums. Just because
there’s a lot of irrelevant questions doesn’t mean that they should
continue to be posted here.
When dealing with a web framework, the graphics processing libraries
available are totally relevant.
Questions related to integrating a library with the framework would
be appropriate. Actually using the library is not (unless you’ve
exhausted all your other resources, and even then, I’d think twice
about posting it here).
What Rails book doesn’t talk about
RMagick even a little?
Of the Rails books I have, “Agile Web D. with Rails” (2nd
Edition, P2.01) does not have a single mention of RMagick (and only
three instances of the word “graphic”, for what it’s worth). Of the
seventy recipes in “Rails Recipes” (P2.0 printing, July, 2006), two
discuss processing images (13 and 57). Actually, you might find
“Rails Recipes” helpful, Recipe 57 is entitled “Processing Uploaded
Images”.
As for your RMagick problem, I would try to reproduce what you’re
seeing in a reproducible test case outside of the Rails framework to
isolate the problem and find a solution. If you find it is a
problem with integrating RMagick with Rails, then after you’ve
searched the web, checked the Rails and RMagick documentation, then
it would be appropriate to ask on the Rails list.
You can help make this list better: help people learn to utilize the
resources available to them. It’s part of helping a community grow
and mature. I’ve seen quite a few posts from you on this and other
mailing lists, so I know you’re pretty active, and know you can help
out improving the quality of the list. I respect you enough to know
you can step up to this. If I didn’t, I wouldn’t have said anything.
Anyway, enough from me. I hope you take this in the spirit it’s
given. Best of luck with your endeavors.
Michael G.
grzm seespotcode net