Install RMagic on Mac

This post documents the installation of RMagick on Snow Leopard. You need MacPorts installed. Install imagemagick library using MacPorts (have a cup of tea or coffe):

sudo port install tiff -macosx imagemagick +q8 +gs +wmf

Install rmagick gem (use sudo if you do not use rvm):

gem install rmagick

Now you should test if Ruby can use imagemagick:

irb -rubygems -r RMagick
ree-1.8.7-2010.01 > puts Magick::Long_version
This is RMagick 2.13.1 ($Date: 2009/12/20 02:33:33 $) Copyright (C) 2009 by Timothy P. Hunter
Built with ImageMagick 6.6.1-5 2010-05-16 Q8 http://www.imagemagick.org
Built for ruby 1.8.7
Web page: http://rmagick.rubyforge.org
Email: rmagick@rubyforge.org
=> nil
ree-1.8.7-2010.01 >

Done!

Thanks to: http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/install-osx.html