Image Science, Ruby Inline and Your Sanity

Doing an install on a VPS (or elsewhere), getting funky soul-sucking ruby inline permission messages in your Mongrel logs and feeling extraordinarily frustrated, dumb or both?

Google to the rescue!

This post and this post kept me sane. After installing freeimage and image science, create a .ruby_inline directory inside your tmp directory with the same permissions as your running mongrels (or whatever works for your install). You might also have to change the permissions of your tmp directory as well. Then add this line to your environments/production.rb:
#Ruby Inline Permissions Hackery
ENV['INLINEDIR'] = RAILS_ROOT + "/tmp/.ruby_inline"

For futher reference, check out: http://blog.zenspider.com/archives/2007/05/image_science_and_deployment.html

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4 Responses to “Image Science, Ruby Inline and Your Sanity”

  1. Jon Wood July 21st, 2008 at 3:12 am

    Thanks – I’d been giving Mongrel write permissions on the .ruby_inline directory in my home directory, but this is a far cleaner approach.

  2. elise September 22nd, 2008 at 12:40 am

    Thank you very much !! I more or less understood what was going on but finding an actual solution would have cost me time. This is the sound of my heart rate slowing down ;-)

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  4. Farouk October 9th, 2008 at 12:17 am

    the url is wrong
    correct one:

    http://blog.zenspider.com/2007/05/image-science-and-deployment.html

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