On 12/15/06, David Heinemeier Hansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Although our site is
> > not running in Ruby, yet, we have worked through a number of
> > approaches
> > to handling this, but only one has the desired properties we need,
> > which is automatic recovery and minimal impact to running code on
> > failure: exec out another process to do image manipulation.
>
> I must admit that we do the same thing at 37signals. But actually not
> because of memory leaks, but because we found it easier to do:
>
> def thumbnail(temp, target)
> system "convert #{escape(temp)} -resize 48x48! #{escape(target)}"
> end
>
> Rather than to get the full RMagick machinery cooking.
There's also minimagick, which is a shell around imagemagick commands.
Probably easier if you want to do more complex operations on your
images.
Oh, and ImageScience, which uses FreeImage and a light inline ruby
wrapper. http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/ImageScience.html
--
Rick Olson
http://weblog.techno-weenie.net
http://mephistoblog.com
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