It's been a while for me but in the past I have had the RMagick memory issue pains James brings up.
It was holding all the image files in memory for far too long. We ended up just shelling out to the command line directly to Image Magick, which wasn't so bad. Plus, RMagick tops out rather quickly in functionality if you need to do anything relatively custom. On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Kevin Ball <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jason, > > We're already using paperclip for resizing/thumbnails, but are looking at > a project that will actually be doing merging. > > -Kevin > > > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Jason Liebrecht < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hey Kevin, >> I've used Image Magick on other projects but not in ruby. Mostly for >> post-processing uploaded pictures for performance reason (like someone >> uploads a photo and you want to resize it so its consistent with the site >> layout, thumbnails etc) >> >> Are you going to actually merge images or just resize? If you're just >> resizing paperclip worked pretty good on my last project. >> >> https://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip >> >> -Jason >> >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Kevin Ball <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hey folks, >>> >>> Does anyone have experience using RMagick or any other similar library >>> to generate new images from sets of existing images? Any recommendations >>> for gems that make this easy or tutorials on how to do it? Thanks, >>> >>> -Kevin >>> >>> -- >>> SD Ruby mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> email: [email protected] >> >> >> -- >> SD Ruby mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby >> > > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby > -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
