From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2004-02-04T09:22:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Image conversion ...

> > > >Hi, is there any Ruby code snippets I can use to transform my photo to lower
> > > >resolution, uniform size but maintaining aspect ration, etc ...?
> > >
> > > RMagick (http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=rmagick) has this
> > > functionality, but it's way more than a code snippet.

http://www.simplesystems.org/RMagick/doc/comtasks.html#thumb

  img = Image.new "bigimage.gif"
  thumb = img.scale(125, 125)
  thumb.write "thumb.gif"

I am truly impressed, I had no idea it was this easy!

Sam