In the process of setting up my new dev machine, I decided I was going to try using MacPorts to install all of the dev-type-software instead of installing into /usr/local.
James Duncan Davidson has a great overview article (that needs no further explaining from myself), titled Sandboxing Rails With MacPorts. Another similar article can be found here.
My problem is that I work on a lot of projects that use ImageMagick / RMagick, and that’s not discussed here.
No worries, I’ll install ‘em and give it a go:
sudo port intall ImageMagick
sudo gem install rmagickCRAP! I don’t know what happens for you, but ImageMagick installs perfectly for me, and then RMagick craps out and dies something like this:
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-1.15.9/./lib/rvg/misc.rb:321:in `get_type_metrics':
unable to read font `(null)' (Magick::ImageMagickError)
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-1.15.9/./lib/rvg/misc.rb:321:in `render'
from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-1.15.9/./lib/rvg/misc.rb:696:in `text'Now, for the solution I am going to give all credit to Jakob Skjerning, because I found the solution on his site after doing some Googling.
Do this instead:
sudo port install ImageMagick
sudo port install rb-rmagickDone. Works. Thank goodness.