rails paperclip and passenger `is not recognized by the 'identify' command`

Question

When I upload a photo, my model fails validation, err well even without any validations I\'m returned this error:

/tmp/stream20100103-13830-ywmerx-0 is not r         


        

Answer 1

I had this issue when using OSX + MAMP + Passenger + Paperclip and after setting the command_path and ensuring imagemagick was properly installed via brew, properly setting the temp and upload directories for passenger to something writable, it still wouldn't work!

The solution was to edit the envvars file for MAMP in /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/envvars and comment out the export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH line.

That is, change the line that says

export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH

to

# export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH

Then restart MAMP and feel the elation when your images are properly uploading/resizing.