A few weeks ago we started our first commercial RoR project. For this product-catalog site we wanted an easy solution for image uploading and decided on Paperclip. This needs ImageMagick and that gave us some worries.
So if you are struggling with installing ImageMagick and getting it running for Ruby, try these steps;

Download the MacPorts dmg-installer, a packetmanager for osx, and install it.
When installed, fire up terminal and start typing;

sudo port install ImageMagick

This will take a while, go get yourself a coffee and when the installation is finished run the following commands

sudo port install ImageMagick
sudo gem install rmagick

That’s it, I hope you enjoyed your coffee because you can grab the code on github and get coding now.

For a good introduction on how to use paperclip, there is a good railscast avaiable for that!

Oh, the guys from Openminds and Gorilla webdesign decided arrrrcamp deserved a second edition. That is comming on October 16th, so reserve your spot at arrrrcamp.be (for free). I’d recommend not to hesitate because it looks like reservations are flying out!

I’m following the next schedule together with Joren on saturday:
10:00 – 10:15 | Welcome (FOSDEM Staff)
10:30 – 11:15 | Tux with Shades, Linux in Hollywood (Robin Rowe)
11:30 – 12:15 | How a large scale opensource project works (Robert Watson)
12:30 – 13:00 | Status update of Software Patents (Pieter Hintjens)
14:00 – 15:00 | Welcome to Free Java Meeting – Introductions (Rich Sands, Fre Java)
15:00 – 16:00 | Mobile Java (Ray Gans, Free Java)
16:00 – 16:45 | JRuby (Charles Oliver Nutter, Languages)
16:45 – 17:30 | Elisa – Enjoy your multimedia world (Alessandro Decina, GNOME)

And one hour later I’m on my way to Amsterdam!