h1. RMagick !https://img.shields.io/gem/v/rmagick.svg?style=flat!:http://rubygems.org/gems/rmagick !https://travis-ci.org/rmagick/rmagick.svg?branch=master!:https://travis-ci.org/rmagick/rmagick !https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/xw3usp6s1ghfimb4/branch/master?svg=true!:https://ci.appveyor.com/project/mockdeep/rmagick !https://circleci.com/gh/rmagick/rmagick.svg?style=svg!:https://circleci.com/gh/rmagick/rmagick h3. Table of Contents * "Introduction":#intro * "Prerequisites":#prereq * "Installing RMagick":#install * "Things that can go wrong":#wrong * "Upgrading":#upgrade * "More samples":#samples * "Reporting Bugs":#bugs * "Development Setup":#dev-setup * "Contact Information":#contact * "Credits":#credits * "License":#license * "Releasing":#releasing h2(#intro). Introduction RMagick is an interface between the Ruby programming language and the ImageMagick image processing library. h2(#prereq). Prerequisites These prerequisites are required for the latest DEVELOPMENT version of RMagick. To see prerequisites for the latest RELEASED version of the gem, switch to the master branch. *O/S* Linux, *BSD, OS X, Windows 2000, XP, Vista, other *nix-like systems. *Ruby* 2.3 or later. You can get Ruby from "www.ruby-lang.org":http://www.ruby-lang.org. Ruby must be able to build C-Extensions (e.g. MRI, Rubinius, not JRuby) *ImageMagick* Version 6.7.7 or later (6.x.x). Version 7 is NOT yet supported; ETA Summer 2019 (https://github.com/rmagick/rmagick/issues/256). You can get ImageMagick from "www.imagemagick.org":http://www.imagemagick.org. On Ubuntu, you can run: bc. sudo apt-get install libmagickwand-dev On Centos, you can run: bc. sudo yum install gcc ImageMagick-devel make which *Note to Windows users:* Please make sure that you choose an ImageMagick version that matches the bitness of your Ruby version. h2(#install). Installing RMagick h4. Installing via Bundler Add to your `Gemfile`: bc. gem 'rmagick' Then run: bc. bundle install h4. Installing via RubyGems Run: bc. gem install rmagick h4. Versioning RMagick is versioned according to Semantic Versioning. For stable version compatible with Ruby 1.8+, use `~> 2.0`. Upcoming version 3 will work on Ruby 2.x only. h2(#usage). Using RMagick Require RMagick in your project as follows: bc. require 'rmagick' See https://rmagick.github.io/usage.html for links to more information. h2(#wrong). Things that can go wrong The "RMagick installation FAQ":https://web.archive.org/web/20140512193354/http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/install-faq.html has answers to the most commonly reported problems, though may be out of date. h4. 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 "this FAQ":https://web.archive.org/web/20140512193354/http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/install-faq.html#libmagick. On OS X with Homebrew, try [re]installing pkg-config: 
brew uninstall pkg-config
brew install pkg-config
brew unlink pkg-config
brew link pkg-config
h4. Cannot open shared object file If you get a message like this: 
    $DIR/RMagick.rb:11:in `require': libMagick.so.0:
      cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory -
      $DIR/RMagick2.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. h4. Segmentation fault Default stack size of your operating system might be too small. Try removing the limit with this command: 
        ulimit -s unlimited
h2(#upgrade). 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 new release of RMagick over an earlier release. h2(#samples). More samples You can find more sample RMagick programs in the /example directory. These programs are not installed in the RMagick documentation tree. h2(#bugs). Reporting bugs Please report bugs in RMagick, its documentation, or its installation programs to me via the bug tracker on the "RMagick issues page":https://github.com/rmagick/rmagick/issues 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 or the "ImageMagick Forum":http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server. h2(#dev-setup). Development Setup In order to minimize issues on your local machine, we recommend that you make use of a "Vagrant installation":https://github.com/tjschuck/rake-compiler-dev-box. Steps to get up and running with a passing build are as follows: h4. 1) set up the Vagrant environment If you don't already have Vagrant installed, you can download and install it from "here":https://www.vagrantup.com/. Once installed, we can set up a pre-built environment: 
git clone https://github.com/tjschuck/rake-compiler-dev-box.git
cd rake-compiler-dev-box
vagrant up
This last part will probably take a while as it has to download an Ubuntu image and configure it. If there is an error during this process, you may need to reboot your computer and enable virtualization in your BIOS settings. h4. 2) clone RMagick and log in to the vagrant box Within the `rake-compiler-dev-box` directory: 
git clone https://github.com/rmagick/rmagick.git # or your fork
vagrant ssh
h4. 3) install ImageMagick and additional environment stuff 
cd /vagrant/rmagick
export IMAGEMAGICK_VERSION=6.8.9-10
bash ./before_install_linux.sh
This will take just a few minutes to build ImageMagick h4. 4) build RMagick 
rake
This compiles the RMagick extensions and runs the tests. If all goes well you'll see a lot of output, eventually ending in something like: 
Finished tests in 35.865734s, 11.3758 tests/s, 6560.3007 assertions/s.

408 tests, 235290 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors, 0 skips
And you're all set! The copy of RMagick within `/vagrant/rmagick` inside your Vagrant session is the same as the one in the `rake-compiler-dev-box` directory on your machine. You can make changes locally and run tests within your `ssh` session. h2(#contact). Contact Information *Author:* Tim Hunter, Omer Bar-or, Benjamin Thomas h2(#credits). Credits Thanks to "ImageMagick Studio LLC":http://www.imagemagick.org for ImageMagick and for hosting the RMagick documentation. h2(#license). MIT License 
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h2(#releasing). Releasing See https://github.com/rmagick/rmagick/wiki/Release-Process # Update ChangeLog # Edit lib/rmagick/version.rb # Are the tests passing? Run `rake` again just to be sure. # `rake release`