Ruby on Rails, JRuby, AWS, EC2, Exalead - ImageScience on Windows without the pain Comments

Comment on 'ImageScience on Windows without the pain' by Rob Anderton

2009-09-11T16:15:01Z

I haven't seen one yet (why can't they just bundle a binary like so many other gems do?!) - might be worth pinging Luis to see if he fancies compiling a new version... and it might also be worth checking out his work on the new Ruby installer for Windows.

Comment on 'ImageScience on Windows without the pain' by silent (e)

2009-09-08T21:46:24Z

Has anyone found a win32 gem for the recently released ImageScience 1.2.1 gem?

Comment on 'ImageScience on Windows without the pain' by MichaellaS

2009-07-21T10:00:27Z

tks for the effort you put in here I appreciate it!

Comment on 'ImageScience on Windows without the pain' by Daria

2009-06-04T15:12:40Z

Thank you for the post sooo SOOOO much!!! I've spent about 2-3 days now trying to get attachament_fu working with ImageScience, and this is the best post on how to install the ImageScience.

Thanks a lot again.

Comment on 'ImageScience on Windows without the pain' by Darek Rusin

2009-05-08T17:30:17Z

thanks! that helped a lot.

Comment on 'ImageScience on Windows without the pain' by Rob Anderton

2009-04-10T11:08:04Z

I don't have the INLINEDIR variable set on my PC, but I do have HOME set to my Windows profile folder (which I think is the 'normal' thing to set it to):

C:\>SET HOME
HOME=C:\Documents and Settings\Rob.MYPOOTA

I'm on XP, I think Vista stores this stuff in C:\Users. If changing the HOME variable doesn't help, what version of Windows, the image_science and RubyInline gems are you using?

Comment on 'ImageScience on Windows without the pain' by RashOnRails

2009-04-08T19:33:39Z

Installed the windows gem and got as far as "require 'image_science'. This gave the error "Define INLINEDIR or HOME in your environment and try again LoadError: IO error -- image_science".

Okay, I'll bite. I set both of these environment variables to C:. Tried again. Got another error "C:\ is insecure (40777). It may not be group or world writable. Exiting. LoadError: IO error -- image_science".

Help!

Comment on 'ImageScience on Windows without the pain' by iioiooioo

2009-02-18T03:00:06Z

For some reason (on Vista64) I had to copy FreeImage.dll to my ruby/bin folder. I believe that all of my environment variables are otherwise set up correctly. Thanks again for this awesome guide!

Comment on 'ImageScience on Windows without the pain' by John Clancy

2009-01-26T22:44:33Z

Tips: Don't get too smart people --

Type this exactly -- gem install "C:\Program Files\Ruby\image_science-1.1.3-i386-mswin32.gem" (for example, don't get lazy and type "gem install image_science")

Also, I had to modify the above to be: gem install "C:\ruby\image_science-1.1.3-i386-mswin32.gem" because my ruby is in c:\ruby and not c:\Program Files\Ruby.

Comment on 'ImageScience on Windows without the pain' by asbrown

2009-01-07T22:06:05Z

live saver!

Comment on 'ImageScience on Windows without the pain' by iioiooioo

2008-11-07T04:32:27Z

Thanks!

Comment on 'ImageScience on Windows without the pain' by Sunil

2008-08-25T07:15:13Z

Yeah, looks like I also had a non windows version of the gem. Uninstalling and reinstalling the gem fixed it. Thanks.

Comment on 'ImageScience on Windows without the pain' by Rob Anderton

2008-08-24T16:30:35Z

It looks like maybe you're not using the Win32 version of the ImageScience gem. On my system it installed itself into the lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\image_science-1.1.3-x86-mswin32 folder of my Ruby installation, and it contains a file called Inline_ImageScience_aa58.so in the lib\inline folder of the gem (this is the precompiled bit that means you don't need cl).

It might be worth uninstalling all versions of the gem using gem uninstall and then re-downloading the pre-compiled gem and install as per step 3 of my instructions.

Comment on 'ImageScience on Windows without the pain' by Sunil

2008-08-24T03:39:32Z

Looks like the problem is I don't have cl. But I am not sure why it is trying to compile anything. I have the FreeImage.dll in windows/system32.

Comment on 'ImageScience on Windows without the pain' by Sunil

2008-08-24T00:17:39Z

Thanks for these easy instruction, but I hit a road block. I get this error when I do require 'image_science'. Any idea what I am screwing up? the only diffrence I can see is versions. I am rubyinline version 3.7.0 and Imagesceince 3.11.0. Thanks for any help.

Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - cl -nologo -LD   -MD -Zi -O2b2xg- -G6 -I C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mswin32  -I C:/ruby/include -LC:/ruby/lib -o "C:\\Documents and Settings\\sunil/.ruby_inline/Inline_ImageScience_aa58.so" "C:/Docu
ments and Settings/sunil/.ruby_inline/Inline_ImageScience_aa58.c" -lfreeimage -lstdc++  -link /LIBPATH:"C:/ruby/lib" /DEFAULTLIB:"msvcrt-ruby18.lib" /INCREMENTAL:no /EXPORT:Init_Inline_ImageScience_aa58
        from C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/RubyInline-3.7.0/lib/inline.rb:444:in ``'
        from C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/RubyInline-3.7.0/lib/inline.rb:444:in `build'
        from C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/RubyInline-3.7.0/lib/inline.rb:654:in `inline'
        from C:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/image_science-1.1.3/lib/image_science.rb:84
        from C:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:32:in `gem_original_require'
        from C:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:32:in `require'
        from (irb):1

Comment on 'ImageScience on Windows without the pain' by Rob Anderton

2008-08-15T08:53:12Z

What is the error?

Comment on 'ImageScience on Windows without the pain' by Manjula

2008-08-13T09:08:24Z

Hi,

This is a wonderful article. I have followed the ways to install. But i'm getting error. Don't know where i'm going wrong. According to the 3rd step i've my ruby folder in the path D:\installation\ruby. So i've copied the gem to this folder and installed. Installation was successful. But when i run or when i test through irb require "image_science" it throwing error.

Comment on 'ImageScience on Windows without the pain' by milton

2008-08-06T09:02:38Z

You are blessed so much. Thank you. Perfect for beginner!

Comment on 'ImageScience on Windows without the pain' by Barry

2008-08-04T13:14:14Z

thank you so much ... was just about to give up after almost 2 days trying to get this bloody thing to work!!!

Comment on 'ImageScience on Windows without the pain' by Jason Black

2008-07-07T21:40:47Z

Bless you, bless you, god bless you, sir!

After pounding my head against rmagick for a long time (damn thing just refuses to work with rails for me), I said "screw it, I'll switch to Image Science" Your simple, clear 30 second instructions did the job and now attachment_fu us happy.

You rock.

Comment on 'ImageScience on Windows without the pain' by rdogg

2008-06-06T23:43:59Z

Thank you !!! , i installed image_science gem using the gem utility, and i was having problems, after i downloaded the one of your article everything is working :)

Comment on 'ImageScience on Windows without the pain' by Antony

2008-05-22T05:46:02Z

Thank you so much for posting this, it took me hours to try to figure out FreeImage until I found the posting. You are a god!!

Antony

Comment on 'ImageScience on Windows without the pain' by Maarten

2008-05-20T12:44:00Z

Thank you so much for writing this down, very helpful for a beginner.

Comment on 'ImageScience on Windows without the pain' by Max RB

2008-05-15T00:26:58Z

Thanks - exactly what I needed

Comment on 'ImageScience on Windows without the pain' by Mike Costa

2008-04-02T09:59:11Z

Thank u! Works perfect!

Comment on 'ImageScience on Windows without the pain' by Abhik

2008-04-01T05:26:08Z

Worked perfectly. Thanks a lot!

Comment on 'ImageScience on Windows without the pain' by Rafael Mueller

2008-03-07T15:16:05Z

Works like a charm, thank you!

Comment on 'ImageScience on Windows without the pain' by Rob

2008-03-05T08:52:26Z

Thanks Richard, I’ve updated the post. On my system I don’t need to explicitly require 'rubygems' because I used the one-click installer which sets the RUBYOPT environment variable.

Comment on 'ImageScience on Windows without the pain' by Richard

2008-03-04T21:59:50Z

Very helpful. Two minor edits:

gem install needs quotes, i.e. gem install "c:\Program Files\Ruby\image_science-1.1.3-i386-mswin32.gem"
test on irb only works if you've already done "require rubygems"

Thanks!

Comment on 'ImageScience on Windows without the pain' by Pedro

2008-02-23T13:27:04Z

Insanely useful! Thank you very much!

There's always 'that' time when the only thing you have is a windows station, and when that time comes... this is an extremely helpful tutorial.

You should update the previous post (with the older method) and link to this one at the top. PageRank is much higher on the other one