The latest available Ruby version in the default CentOS repositories is currently Ruby version 1.8.5. Many packages in the default CentOS repos are notorious for lagging way behind what versions of the packages are currently available. Even though Ruby 1.8.7 and Ruby 1.9.X are available I simply needed to get Ruby 1.8.6 installed for a…
While prepping a development server earlier this afternoon I ran into an issue installing the rmagick gem. This was one of a list of 30 or so gems required by a Ruby project that was being installed onto the development server. I thought initially something else was wrong because I had run into this issue…
ImageMagick is a really cool product. Not only is it open source but its very powerful tool. My goal was to figure out how to batch resize images while keeping one side 640 pixels wide. I ended up using ImageMagick’s mogrify by issuing the command below at my CentOS shell prompt. mogrify -resize x640 *.jpg…
This is what I had to do to get it to work on CentOS 5. For some reason, FreeType would not work with yum so I built it from scratch. I’m not sure if the all the “yum install”s were needed, but I did it anyway. #yum install freetype — did not work cd /usr/local/src…