From: Timothy Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2006-10-10T20:38:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby, Windows or Rmagick error ???

marinho.tobolla@syncity.de wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Well i�ve written a little program on my linux machine which uses
> my_image = "20061002_122234_No_1.jpg"
> Image.read(my_image)
>
> This isn�t really complicated... and it works (at least on my linux machine).
> On windows the beahvior ist really strange...
> it t works with 
> my_image="test.jpg"
> but with 
> my_image = "20061002_122234_No_1.jpg"
> it doesn�t....
> really strange is the error with different paths (relative, absolute, with "\\" or with "/"..)
> All of them don�t work with the image and all of them produce a sort of file/directory not found. And in the error message it also writes down the file which couldn�t be found. And now the obscure part.
> Depending of the part it writes 234_No_1.jpg or 61002_122234_No_1.jpg or something like 2234_No_1.jpg not found.. 
>
> Sure it can�t be found. It�s not even the name of the image ... and the path is gone too ... 
> :(
>
> So is there a problem with ruby ? windows ? rmagick ?
>
> I don�t know, otherwise i wouldn�t ask.
> I guess there isn�t a "real" ruby problem, otherwise there would be a problem using linux too... 
> So is it rmagick ? 
> for the same reason there shouldn�t....
> Leaves windows ....
> But windows can handle such file names....
>
> So there isn�t a problem at all ? 
>
> Since i have this problem there should be a problem in the windows version of ruby or rmagick or in the combination of all three....
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Marinho
>   

This happens when you install a version of ImageMagick that is not the 
version that comes bundled in the rmagick-win32 gem. RMagick for Windows 
is built to work with the version of ImageMagick that it's bundled with 
and no other. Uninstall ImageMagick and RMagick and re-install RMagick 
following the directions in the README file.

http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/install-faq.html#later