image_science version 1.1.0 has been released!
http://rubyforge.org/projects/seattlerb
ImageScience is a clean and happy Ruby library that generates
thumbnails – and kicks the living crap out of RMagick. Oh, and it
doesn’t leak memory like a sieve. 
For more information including
build steps, see http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/
Changes:
== 1.1.0 / 2007-01-05
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3 major enhancements:
- Added resize(width, height)
- Added save(path)
- All thumbnail and resize methods yield instead of saving directly.
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1 minor enhancement:
- Will now try to use FreeImage from ports if /opt/local exists.
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2 bug fixes:
- Fixed the linker issue on PPC.
- Rakefile will now clean the image files created by bench.rb