Forums | Admin Discussion Forums: open-discussion Start New Thread Nested Flat Threaded Ultimate Show 25 Show 50 Show 75 Show 100   By: Ryan B RE: mogrify -first [ reply ]   2006-04-18 13:52 Yeah, the File.open method works well. I think if you have a from_blob, then it would be nice to have a to_blob. It'll make my code look a little nicer ;-) By: Corey J RE: mogrify -first [ reply ]   2006-04-18 13:48 MiniMagick is just a simple facade for ImageMagick. In addition to the mogrify commands it has several built in class methods. MiniMagick::Image.from_blob(data) MiniMagick::Image.from_file(file_path) MiniMagick::Image.new(file_path) # This allows you to edit the image inplace rather than making a copy like the above to methods do MiniMagick::Image.write(output_path) It doesn't have a to_blob method (I guess I should add that functionality). But you can emulate it. Assuming you have loaded a MiniMagick::Image file as image do this... File.open(image.path, "rb") do |f| blob_data = f.read # Now you have the blob_data for your image, do whatever you would like with it. end By: Ryan B RE: mogrify -first [ reply ]   2006-04-18 13:41 I see that I can do: File.open(tpic.path).read That's not as pristine as I had hoped for, but it works. Sorry for being spastic. By: Ryan B RE: mogrify -first [ reply ]   2006-04-18 13:33 I'm sorry, I was certainly posting too quickly. I was using RMagick code and didn't realize what minimagick was doing. The .first was from some RMagick example that I had found as well as the resize! I just need a way to do something like a .read or .to_blob I don't see a mogrify command for that. By: Corey J RE: mogrify -first [ reply ]   2006-04-18 13:24 MiniMagick just passes the commands directly to the mogrify program. So if the command is not on this list http://www.imagemagick.org/script/mogrify.php it won't work in MiniMagick. What does the -first argument do? Maybe there is another way around the problem. By: Ryan B RE: mogrify -first [ reply ]   2006-04-18 13:22 I'm going to answer my own question and raise a new one. Removing the .first from the offending line removes that error, but then it fails trying to run this: mogrify -resize! 200 200 /tmp/minimagic31232.0 -resize! is not a valid option By: Ryan B mogrify -first [ reply ]   2006-04-18 13:15 I get this error: mogrify -first /tmp/minimagic31232.0) failed: Error Given 256 when running this line: tpic = MiniMagick::Image::from_blob(picture_field.read).first -first doesn't seem to be a valid option to mogrify in either version 6.0.6 or 6.2.2 Is -first only supported in one of the later versions?