Rmagick err: can't convert Magick::GravityType into Integer

#1

Hi, I have a problem with the installed rmagick on my dreamhost account.

When I do this I get my versions:

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This is RMagick 1.6.0 ($Date: 2004/08/18 23:22:36 $) Copyright © 2004 by Timothy P. Hunter
Built with ImageMagick 6.0.6 11/15/06 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
Built for ruby 1.8.2 (2004-08-24) [i386-linux]

When I upload an image and try to resize it with rmagick, I get this error from rails (using the file_column plugin):

can’t convert Magick::GravityType into Integer

your help is much appreciated!

#2

I suspect the problem you’re seeing is related to the fact that the old RMagick currently installed on DreamHost expects different arguments than the current RMagick for the same methods…I had a somewhat similar problem when I tried using the installed version.

#3

Hmm. I got it. Unfortuantely I am having problems while installing the new version of Rmagick on my dreamhost account. I basically do this but it gives the error below.

[quote]gem install rmagick

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Attempting local installation of 'rmagick’
Local gem file not found: rmagick*.gem
Attempting remote installation of 'rmagick’
Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
Building native extensions. This could take a while…
configure: error: Can’t install RMagick. Can’t find Magick-config or GraphicsMagick-config program.
ERROR: While executing gem … (RuntimeError)
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
Gem files will remain installed in /my/dir/to/home/gems/gems/rmagick-1.14.1 for inspection.
ruby gem_extconf.rb install rmagick\n
sh configure

Configuring RMagick 1.14.1
checking for gcc… gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name… a.out
checking whether the C compiler works… yes
checking whether we are cross compiling… no
checking for suffix of executables…
checking for suffix of object files… o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler… yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g… yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C… none needed
checking for ruby… /usr/bin/ruby
checking for Magick-config… no
checking for GraphicsMagick-config… no
RMagick configuration failed with status 1.

then it hangs here…

#4

I had a lot of trouble with this too, because it turns out dreamhost imposes a total memory limitation of something like 200MB on all your processes…your build processes may have been getting killed off as a result. I only barely managed to get the install to succeed by killing all other processes first, and even then I had to try the installation procedure multiple times before a build barely managed to squeak by. :frowning:

#5

when i do

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I see multiple dispatch.fcgi processes. you mean killing some of them and then doing > gem install rmagick ? but isn’t it also mean shutting down some live services?

#6

Yup, those’d be the ones to kill. Not sure how you’re gonna do it if you need to keep your site up in the meantime, though.

#7