The Definition of Sucks - Installing Rmagick on Mac OS X

Date October 25, 2007

As part of the TipDish project, we needed to use Rmagick to manipulate avatars.

I was real sad to see it required 6+ pages of install instructions for OS X. The Windows install is MUCH simpler.

I was ready to pay someone to install it for me.

But I decided to just plod through the instructions.

Luckily I had installed the X Windows software earlier in the year, so that cut down on the install time.

It must have taken 2 hours to install. Luckily there was an exciting World Series Game on to ease the pain.

I’m still not sure if I have everything configured correctly. The Rails app appears to work now.

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