November 20

Using paperclip with ImageMagick on Leopard

Thoughtbot’s paperclip plugin does not need ImageMagick unless you want to start resizing and cropping image attachments.

After installing ImageMagick on leopard, I had to add this initializer to config/initializers in order for paperclip to find my ImageMagick binaries.

# config/initializers/paperclip.rb
Paperclip.options[:image_magick_path] = "/usr/local/bin"

After that, it worked fine.