R – Paperclip error

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I am getting the following error when uploading an image on the admin panel of spree (RoR e-commerce platform):

Paperclip::NotIdentifiedByImageMagickError in Admin/imagesController#create

/tmp/stream.4724.0 is not recognized by the 'identify' command.

Any ideas? Thanks.

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It sounds like the wrong identify command (which is part of ImageMagick) is being called (or, perhaps, it isn't installed at all). Can you confirm the path to this command on your server using:

which identify

Once you've determined where this command is installed (e.g. /usr/local/bin) then you can tell Paperclip about it by adding the following to your environment.rb (or production.rb etc) file:

Paperclip.options[:command_path] = '/usr/local/bin/'

(this is for Paperclip 2.2 and above. If you're using an earlier version you should use :image_magick_path not :command_path)

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The Paperclip.options[:command_path] setting is for the location of your ImageMagick executables (in this case identify). Try running which identify and setting the option to be the directory that is returned. If that command doesn't return anything, make sure that ImageMagick is properly installed.

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Identify is a command-line utility inside the ImageMagick package.

From its homepage:

The identify program describes the format and characteristics of one or more image files. It also reports if an image is incomplete or corrupt. The information returned includes the image number, the file name, the width and height of the image, whether the image is colormapped or not, the number of colors in the image, the number of bytes in the image, the format of the image (JPEG, PNM, etc.), and finally the number of seconds it took to read and process the image. Many more attributes are available with the verbose option.

First, copy the image on the server and run the identify command on it. You should receive something like:

identify ~/capture.jpg 
capture.jpg JPEG 1216x244 1216x244+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 97.7kb

If you receive an error, try upgrading the ImageMagick package on your server. You may find an updated binary release here: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php

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