Install RMagick 2.12.2 on Yosemite
Basically, we're going to fake 2.13.2 as 2.12.2 because often it will refuse to build.
Steps:
git clone https://github.com/rmagick/rmagick
cd rmagickdiff --git a/rmagick.gemspec b/rmagick.gemspec
index 3ae86bb..38fbc20 100644
--- a/rmagick.gemspec
+++ b/rmagick.gemspec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
require 'date'
Gem::Specification.new do |s|
s.name = %q{rmagick}
- s.version = "2.13.2"
+ s.version = "2.12.2"
s.date = Date.today.to_s
s.summary = %q{Ruby binding to ImageMagick}
s.description = %q{RMagick is an interface between Ruby and ImageMagick.}gem build rmagick.gemspec
gem install rmagick-2.12.2.gem -lNote: current development for rmagick is happening at https://github.com/gemhome/rmagick but this trick was last tested against version 2.13.2 from https://github.com/rmagick/rmagick
Thanks to @vassilevsky for pointing this out.
Written by Philip Arndt
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rmagick has been adopted by new maintainers. The current repository is:
https://github.com/gemhome/rmagick
Any contributions are very welcome :D
Also, rmagick 2.13.3 installs on Yosemite without problems :)
@vassilevsky ah - thank you! And yes, later versions install on Yosemite fine, but when your application/server environment require you to use the earlier version this is the only way that I've found to make that happen.
This is great! So simple :)
I couldn't install rmagick 2.13.1 which is depended on by a project I'm working on. I had actually updated the version in Gemfile.lock and figured I would stash the lock file and not commit it. But this is so much better. Now my Gemfile.lock is the same as on the servers and I don't have to worry about accidentally commit the Gemfile.lock.
Thanks! :)
I take it back
I don't understand the steps after cd rmagick. What the second box code mean? Should I run that in terminal or is it a file inside rmagick folder that I should edit?? Please elaborate.
Hah, this is a great hack. Thanks for saving me a lot of headaches!
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