MojoMagick is a "dog simple, do very little" image library. It is basically a couple of stateless module methods that make it somewhat more convenient than calling ImageMagick by hand.

The main reason to use MojoMagick is that you should consolidate your ImageMagick calls into one place, so why not do it here? If you improve on this tool, send me the patch.

This tool came about because I wanted a fast, simple, lightweight, nothing-goes-wrong-with-it- because-it's-too-simple-to-break image tool.

Add to your Gemfile

gem 'mojo_magick'

Require it in your ruby code

require 'mojo_magick'

Go to town! Check out a couple of simple examples, here

dimensions = MojoMagick::get_image_size(test_image)
# ==> dimensions now holds a hash: {:height => 120, :width => 222}

(Note: this will scale an image either up or down to fit these dimensions which may not be what you want.) In this example, we overwrite our image, but if you pass in a different file for the second file name, a new file will be created with the resized dimensions

MojoMagick::resize('/img/test.jpg', '/img/test.jpg', {:width=>100, :height=>200})

After this transformation, your image's short side will be 100px. This will preserve the aspect ratio.

MojoMagick::resize('/img/infile.jpg', '/img/outfile.jpg', {:width=>100, :height=>100, :fill => true})

After this transformation, your image will be 100x100. But it does not distort the images. It crops out of the Center.

MojoMagick::resize('/img/infile.jpg', '/img/outfile.jpg', {:width=>100, :height=>100, :fill => true, :crop => true})

require 'mojo_magick'

image_folder = '/tmp/img'
Dir::glob(File::join(image_folder, '*.jpg')).each do |image|
  begin
    # shrink all the images *in place* to no bigger than 60pix x 60pix
    MojoMagick::shrink(image, image, {:width => 60, :height => 60})
    puts "Shrunk: #{image}"
  rescue MojoMagick::MojoFailed => e
    STDERR.puts "Unable to shrink image '#{image}' - probably an invalid image\n#{e.message}"
  rescue MojoMagick::MojoMagickException => e
    STDERR.puts "Unknown exception on image '#{image}'\n#{e.message}"
  end
end

Be sure you're upgraded to the current release of ImageMagick.

set limits on disk, area, map and ram usage obtain/print a hash of default limits:

puts MojoMagick::get_default_limits.inspect

current_limits shows same values:

puts MojoMagick::get_current_limits.inspect

MojoMagick::set_limits(:area => '32mb', :disk => '0', :memory => '64mb', :map => '32mb')
puts MojoMagick::get_current_limits.inspect

As of ImageMagick 6.6, you also have the ability to set :threads and :time. Read ImageMagick docs on limits for more info.

Two command-line builders, #convert and #mogrify, have been added to simplify complex commands.

MojoMagick::convert('source.jpg', 'dest.jpg') do |c|
  c.crop '250x250+0+0'
  c.repage!
  c.strip
  c.set 'comment', 'my favorite file'
end

# Equivalent to:
MojoMagick::raw_command('convert', 'source.jpg -crop 250x250+0+0 +repage -strip -set comment "my favorite file" dest.jpg')

MojoMagick::mogrify('image.jpg') {|i| i.shave '10x10'}

# Equivalent to:

MojoMagick::raw_command('mogrify', '-shave 10x10 image.jpg')

# Example showing some additional options:
# assuming binary data that is rgb, 8bit depth and 10x20 pixels, :format => :rgb, :depth => 8, :size => '10x20'OAu

MojoMagick::convert do |c|
  c.file 'source.jpg'
  c.blob my_binary_data, :format => :rgb, :depth => 8, :size => '10x20'
  c.append
  c.crop '256x256+0+0'
  c.repage!
  c.file 'output.jpg'
end

# Use .file to specify file names, .blob to create and include a tempfile. The
# bang (!) can be appended to command names to use the '+' versions
# instead of '-' versions.

binary_data = '1111222233334444'
MojoMagick::convert do |c|
  c.rgba8 binary_data, :format => :rgba, :depth => 8, :size => '2x2'
  c.file 'output.jpg'
end

fonts = MojoMagick::available_fonts

fonts.first
=> #<MojoMagick::Font:0x000001015a8b90 @name="AvantGarde-Book", @family="AvantGarde", @style="Normal", @stretch="Normal", @weight="400", @glyphs="/usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/a010013l.pfb">

Note: Use with care. If you don't have fonts installed ImageMagick can spin off wildly leaving MojoMagick not knowing what to do. For Unix/MacOSX, you should install freetype and ghostscript.

MojoMagick::convert(nil, fname) do |c|
  c.background 'black'
  c.fill 'white'
  c.gravity 'center'
  c.pointsize 80
  c.size '200x200'
  c.label 'the bird is the word'
end

MojoMagick::convert(nil, 'composite_out.png') do |c|
  c.size '200x200'
  c.image_block do # first layer
    c.background 'blue'
    c.fill 'white'
    c.gravity 'northwest'
    c.label 'NW'
  end
  c.image_block do # second layer
    c.background 'transparent'
    c.fill 'red'
    c.gravity 'southeast'
    c.label 'SE'
  end
  c.composite
end

This library has (in the past) been good for ruby 1.8.7 and beyond. Recent mods (as of 0.5.x) will require a more recent ruby (>1.9.3).

If you're running on 1.8.7, you should be able to safely use 0.4.3

Do this by pinning it in your Gemfile

gem 'mojo_magick', '0.4.3'

• Github Repo This is the current canonical branch.
• Issues/Pull Requests can be submitted through the above repository.

Got a fix? Got a feature?

• fork it
• make a branch (named appropriately)
• write your code
• write your tests
• test it (rake will run the tests)
• submit a pull request

Note: please don't change the version. We'll do that when we merge in the new code

• Bundle update

• Bundle update

• Bundle update

• Fix issue with identity -list font returning exit code 1 on some systems (Ubuntu) with PR ##35 35

• Major cleanup and refactor (#33)
• Deprecated MojoMagick.get_fonts in favor of MojoMagick.available_fonts
• Moved raw_command and execute and execute! methods into their own module (and added deprecation warnings)
• Renamed Util::Parser to Util::FontParser because that's what it does
• Overall rubocop and ruby clean up

• fix annotate option. Now it takes keyword arguments for geometry.

• pushed and yanked - defunct version

• general cleanup and update gems - ready for ImageMagick 7
• dumped resource limit handling
• PR #29, #30

• add get_format method to help with quoted source file

• Refactor raw_command into execute! and execute methods so that for cases where we don't care about exit status, it can be easily ignored

• Include image magick commandline failure from raw_command (on failure)
• moved to Popen3
• added checks for Popen3 on windows
• updated README to include info about submissions
• probably no good for ruby 1.8.7 anymore

• add LICENSE.txt and update README
• add examples/ directory
• add support for fonts
• add support for building multi-layer images with image blocks (no explicit temp file creation)
• Moved repo to rcode5 Current support and maintenance is happening here.
• added simplecov for test coverage reports

• Add rake tasks for gem building and tests
• code cleanup
• better handling of gravity parameter

• Add new github repo
• added gemspec for building gem with bundler
• updated tests for ImageMagick 6.6
• added ability to do fill + crop resizing
• bumped version to 0.3.0
• new github repo

• Original SVN MojoMagick repository - Initiated and developed by Steve Midgley
• ImageMagick
• FreeType
• Ghostscript

Copyright (c) 2013 Jon Rogers Copyright (c) 2008 Steve Midgley, released under the MIT license Credit to Elliot Nelson for significant code contributions. Thanks Elliot!