ImageMagick Custom Scripting on Rails (Paperclip?)

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ImageMagick Custom Scripting on Rails (Paperclip?)

I would like to use some of these scripts: http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/ to process images uploaded to my Rails application. How can i achieve this? Can I customize it in Paperclip anyway to write some kind of custom code?

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ruby ruby-on-rails image-processing imagemagick paperclip

sNiCKY May 23 '11 at 11:35

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You might want to consider CarrierWave instead of Paperclip. Easier to customize image processing behavior with CarrierWave and RMagick.

Railscast about CarrierWave is a great starting point:
http://railscasts.com/episodes/253-carrierwave-file-uploads

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Christoph schiessl May 23 '11 at 11:55

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Douglas f shearer · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-23T11:55:06+0000

Paperclip provides a way to write your own image processor, which primarily uses the command line tools provided by imagemagick, etc.

Since the scripts you are referring to above are command line tools, it will be pretty trivial to write a processor to use them.

Resources

Railscast # 182 uses a custom processor to trim.
The default thumbnail handler in Paperclip provides good documentation on how you can implement your own processors.

ImageMagick Custom Scripting on Rails (Paperclip?)

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