From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-05-11T00:12:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Image Processing Questions


On May 10, 2006, at 9:37 AM, Mike Brum wrote:

> I've been digging around trying to find a good hook for GD and so  
> far I've
> found
>
> Gruby (1): http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/gruby/
> Gruby (2): http://gruby.sourceforge.jp/index.en.html#download
> Ruby-gd: http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/ruby-gd/
> GD2: http://rubyforge.org/projects/gd2/
>
> GD2 seems to be the most-current with the file date of March 4, 2006.
> However, when I run 'gem install GD2' I get some strange errors  
> along with
> when I try to require GD2.
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\Mike>gem install gd2
> Attempting local installation of 'gd2'
> Local gem file not found: gd2*.gem
> Attempting remote installation of 'gd2'
> Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
> Successfully installed gd2-1.1
> Installing RDoc documentation for gd2-1.1...
>
> lib/gd2/image.rb:681:25: ':' not followed by identified or operator
> lib/gd2/palette.rb:55:40: ':' not followed by identified or operator
> lib/gd2/palette.rb:93:28: ':' not followed by identified or operator
> lib/gd2/palette.rb:94:30: ':' not followed by identified or operator
> lib/gd2/palette.rb:95:29: ':' not followed by identified or operator
> lib/gd2/palette.rb:96:30: ':' not followed by identified or operator
> lib/gd2/palette.rb:97:29: ':' not followed by identified or operator
> lib/gd2/palette.rb:189:28: ':' not followed by identified or operator
> lib/gd2/palette.rb:190:30: ':' not followed by identified or operator
> lib/gd2/palette.rb:191:29: ':' not followed by identified or operator
> lib/gd2/palette.rb:192:30: ':' not followed by identified or operator
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\Mike>irb
> irb(main):001:0> require 'GD2'
> RuntimeError: unknown error
>         from C:/Program
> Files/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/gd2-1.1/lib/gd2.rb:29:in  
> `initialize'
>         from C:/Program
> Files/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/gd2-1.1/lib/gd2.rb:29
>         from C:/Program
> Files/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in  
> `require'
>
>         from C:/Program Files/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/ 
> rubygems.rb:182:in
> `activate'
>         from C:/Program Files/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/ 
> rubygems.rb:181:in
> `activate'
>         from C:/Program
> Files/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:26:in  
> `require'
>
>         from (irb):1
> irb(main):002:0>
>
> (condensed some whitespace)
>
> What I'm wondering is
>
> 1) What do people use for image processing? I've always used GD  
> when I was
> using PHP and it's just "what I'm used to". I'm not really married  
> to any
> particular library as long as it has all of the functionality that  
> GD has.
>
> 2) Does anyone have any idea what went wrong with my GD gem  
> install? I tried
> this on two XP sp2 systems and it yielded the same exact result  
> (wanted to
> be sure it wasn't a localized problem). I also get the same results  
> when I
> require GD2 on both machines (the other machine has Ruby installed to
> C:\ruby - so I know the path in the example above isn't an issue).
>
> Any insight is greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks
>
> -M
>

Seems like a bug in GD2. Have you looked at line 29 of
C:/Program Files/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/gd2-1.1/lib/gd2.rb
?