RMagick 2.0.0 README

RMagick 2.0.0 README

12/27/07

Table Of Contents

Introduction

RMagick is an interface between the Ruby programming language and the ImageMagick image processing library.

Contact Information

Author: Tim Hunter

Email: rmagick@rubyforge.org

RubyForge: http://rubyforge.org/projects/rmagick/

What's new?

RMagick 2.0.0 incorporates all changes and bug fixes from RMagick 1.15.12. Additionally,

  • The installation procedure is pure Ruby.
  • The minimum version of Ruby is 1.8.2.
  • The minimum version of ImageMagick is 6.3.0.
  • GraphicsMagick is not supported.
  • The following GraphicsMagick-only methods are no longer available: Image#grayscale_pseudo_class, Image#statistics.
  • The following deprecated methods are no longer available: Image#random_channel_threshold, Image#channel_threshold, Image#montage=, Image#image_type=, Image::Info#tile_info, Image#tile_info=, Image::Info#tile, Image::Info#tile=, Image::Info#subimage, Image::Info#subimage=, Image::Info#subrange, Image::Info#subrange=, Magick.set_monitor.
  • The following methods have been added: Image::Info#stroke=, Image::Info#stroke_width= and Image::Info#undercolor=, Draw#fill_pattern= and Draw#stroke_pattern=, Image#destroy!, Image#destroyed?, Image#check_destroyed, Magick.trace_proc, Image.combine, Image#separate, Image#distort, Image#each_pixel.
  • Magick::MaxRGB is deprecated (but still available). Use Magick::QuantumRange instead.
  • RMagick works with the Q32 version of ImageMagick.

Various other minor bug fixes and upgrades.

Prerequisites

O/S: Linux, Sun Solaris, Cygwin, FreeBSD, OS X.

Ruby 1.8.2 or later. You can get Ruby from http://www.ruby-lang.org.

ImageMagick 6.3.0 or later. You can get ImageMagick from http://www.imagemagick.org.

Installation

The installation procedure for RMagick 2.0.0 is different from that used in earlier releases. Before installing RMagick, you must install ImageMagick. Complete and up-to-date instructions for installing ImageMagick on Linux, *BSD, and other *nix-type O/S's are available at http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/install-linux.html, steps 0, 1, 2. Similarly, instructions for installing ImageMagick using MacPorts on OS X are available at http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/install-osx.html, steps 1 and 2. After installing ImageMagick, use the instructions in the next section to install RMagick.

Installing RMagick 2.0.0

This release of RMagick uses Minero Aoki's setup.rb script for installation. See the next section for configuration options. Usually you do not need to specify any of these options. You can get more information about setup.rb from his web site http://i.loveruby.net

I assume you've already decompressed the tarball, or you wouldn't be reading this. If you have not decompressed the tarball, do so with this command:

tar xvzf RMagick-2.0.0-tar.gz

or

tar xvjf RMagick-2.0.0-tar.bz2

Change to the RMagick-2.0.0 directory. If you are not using any configuration options (usually you don't need to) enter the command

ruby setup.rb

Note that setup.rb executes all the example programs, so this can take some time. This process both builds the example images used in the documentation and validates your RMagick installation.

After this command completes, make sure you have root priviledges (that is, login as root or use su or sudo) and enter the command

ruby setup.rb install

Configuration Options

Type ruby setup.rb --help to see a list of configuration options. In addition to the regular options, there are a few RMagick-specific options:

  • --doc-dir=directory

    Specify the directory to install the RMagick documentation. By default this is $prefix/share/RMagick, where $prefix is the prefix specified by --prefix. For example, to install the documentation in /Users/me/RMagick, specify:

    ./configure --doc-dir=/Users/me/RMagick

  • --allow-example-errors

    Normally the documentation installation terminates if 5 examples fail. If you use this option, the installation does not check for failing examples and will always complete. This option is useful if you're having trouble installing RMagick and you want to see all the failing examples.

  • --disable-htmldoc

    By default the install process runs all the RMagick example programs and generates HTML versions of all the examples. This option causes the install process to skip this step. No install verification occurs and no documentation is installed.

Things that can go wrong

The RMagick installation FAQ [http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/install-faq.html] has answers to the most commonly reported problems.

Can't install RMagick. Can't find libMagick or one of the dependent libraries. Check the mkmf.log file for more detailed information.

Typically this message means that one or more of the libraries that ImageMagick depends on hasn't been installed. Examine the mkmf.log file in the ext/RMagick subdirectory of the installation directory for any error messages. These messages typically contain enough additional information for you to be able to diagnose the problem. Also see http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/install-faq.html#libmagick.

Cannot open shared object file

When make is running the examples, if you get a message like this:

/home/you/RMagick-2.0.0/lib/RMagick.rb:11:in `require': libMagick.so.0:
  cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory -
  /home/you/RMagick-2.0.0/ext/RMagick/RMagick.so (LoadError)

you probably do not have the directory in which the ImageMagick library is installed in your load path. An easy way to fix this is to define the directory in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. For example, suppose you installed the ImageMagick library libMagick.so in /usr/local/lib. (By default this is where it is installed.) Create the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable like this:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib

On Linux, see ld(1) and ld.so(8) for more information. On other operating systems, see the documentation for the dynamic loading facility.

No such file or directory - "/tmp/rmagick6872.6"

When make is running the examples, if you get a message like this:

hook /home/me/src/RMagick-2.0.0/./post-setup.rb failed:
No such file or directory - "/tmp/rmagick6872.6"

you probably do not have a temporary directory environment variable set. Set the TMPDIR environment variable to your temporary directory. For example:

export TMPDIR=/home/me/tmp

Upgrading

If you upgrade to a newer release of ImageMagick, make sure you're using a release of RMagick that supports that release. It's safe to install a newer release of RMagick over an earlier release.

Uninstalling

The uninstall.rb script will uninstall RMagick completely. Make sure you have administrator priviledges. Then run this command:

ruby uninstall.rb

More samples

You can find more sample RMagick programs in the /example directory. These programs are not installed in the RMagick documentation tree.

Reporting bugs

Please report bugs in RMagick, its documentation, or its installation programs to me via the bug tracker on the RMagick project page at RubyForge. However, I can't help with Ruby installation and configuration or ImageMagick installation and configuration. Information about reporting problems and getting help for ImageMagick is available at the ImageMagick web site (http://www.imagemagick.org).

Credits

Thanks to

  • ImageMagick Studio LLC, for ImageMagick and for hosting the RMagick documentation.

License

Copyright ? 2002-2007 by Timothy P. Hunter

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.


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