Installing RMagick on Mac OS X Snow Leopard

This used to be quite a complicated task to install ImageMagick and RMagick from source, but these days (thanks to some great work by others) it’s easy…

First install ImageMagick using this install script hosted on github (http://github.com/masterkain/ImageMagick-sl):


cd ~/src
git clone git://github.com/masterkain/ImageMagick-sl.git
cd ImageMagick-sl
sh install_im.sh


Now simply sit back and wait. (Oh, you’ll need to enter your password at some points as the libraries are installed into /usr/local).

Then, once that’s done, RMagick is installed by:

gem install rmagick