https://github.com/janko/image_processing
High-level image processing wrapper for libvips and ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick
https://github.com/janko/image_processing
Keywords
image-processing imagemagick minimagick ruby thumbnails vips
Keywords from Contributors
rubygems activerecord rack mvc activejob gem multithreading crash-reporting search-interface ruby-library
Last synced: about 14 hours ago
JSON representation
Repository metadata
High-level image processing wrapper for libvips and ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/janko/image_processing
- Owner: janko
- License: mit
- Created: 2015-10-03T18:36:53.000Z (about 10 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2025-08-22T06:19:33.000Z (4 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-12-12T01:28:54.737Z (5 days ago)
- Topics: image-processing, imagemagick, minimagick, ruby, thumbnails, vips
- Language: Ruby
- Homepage:
- Size: 12 MB
- Stars: 928
- Watchers: 21
- Forks: 82
- Open Issues: 7
- Releases: 0
-
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
- License: LICENSE.txt
- Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
README.md
ImageProcessing
Provides higher-level image processing helpers that are commonly needed
when handling image uploads.
This gem can process images with either ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick or
libvips libraries. ImageMagick is a good default choice, especially if you
are migrating from another gem or library that uses ImageMagick. Libvips is a
newer library that can process images very rapidly
(often multiple times faster than ImageMagick).
Goal
The goal of this project is to have a single gem that contains all the
helper methods needed to resize and process images.
Currently, existing attachment gems (like Paperclip, CarrierWave, Refile,
Dragonfly, ActiveStorage, and others) implement their own custom image
helper methods. But why? That's not very DRY, is it?
Let's be honest. Image processing is a dark, mysterious art. So we want to
combine every great idea from all of these separate gems into a single awesome
library that is constantly updated with best-practice thinking about
how to resize and process images.
Installation
- Install ImageMagick and/or libvips:
In a Mac terminal:
$ brew install imagemagick vips
In a debian/ubuntu terminal:
$ sudo apt install imagemagick libvips
- Add the gem to your Gemfile:
gem "image_processing", "~> 1.0"
Usage
Processing is performed through ImageProcessing::Vips or
ImageProcessing::MiniMagick modules. Both modules share the same
chainable API for defining the processing pipeline:
require "image_processing/mini_magick"
processed = ImageProcessing::MiniMagick
.source(file)
.resize_to_limit(400, 400)
.convert("png")
.call
processed #=> #<Tempfile:/var/folders/.../image_processing20180316-18446-1j247h6.png>
This allows easy branching when generating multiple derivates:
require "image_processing/vips"
pipeline = ImageProcessing::Vips
.source(file)
.convert("png")
large = pipeline.resize_to_limit!(800, 800)
medium = pipeline.resize_to_limit!(500, 500)
small = pipeline.resize_to_limit!(300, 300)
The processing is executed on #call or when a processing method is called
with a bang (!).
processed = ImageProcessing::MiniMagick
.convert("png")
.resize_to_limit(400, 400)
.call(image)
# OR
processed = ImageProcessing::MiniMagick
.source(image) # declare source image
.convert("png")
.resize_to_limit(400, 400)
.call
# OR
processed = ImageProcessing::MiniMagick
.source(image)
.convert("png")
.resize_to_limit!(400, 400) # bang method
You can inspect the pipeline options at any point before executing it:
pipeline = ImageProcessing::MiniMagick
.source(image)
.loader(page: 1)
.convert("png")
.resize_to_limit(400, 400)
.strip
pipeline.options
# => {:source=>#<File:/path/to/source.jpg>,
# :loader=>{:page=>1},
# :saver=>{},
# :format=>"png",
# :operations=>[[:resize_to_limit, [400, 400]], [:strip, []]],
# :processor_class=>ImageProcessing::MiniMagick::Processor}
The source object needs to responds to #path, or be a String, a Pathname, or
a Vips::Image/MiniMagick::Tool object. Note that the processed file is
always saved to a new location, in-place processing is not supported.
ImageProcessing::Vips.source(File.open("source.jpg"))
ImageProcessing::Vips.source("source.jpg")
ImageProcessing::Vips.source(Pathname.new("source.jpg"))
ImageProcessing::Vips.source(Vips::Image.new_from_file("source.jpg"))
When #call is called without options, the result of processing is a
Tempfile object. You can save the processing result to a specific location by
passing :destination to #call, or pass save: false to retrieve the raw
Vips::Image/MiniMagick::Tool object.
pipeline = ImageProcessing::Vips.source(image)
pipeline.call #=> #<Tempfile ...>
pipeline.call(save: false) #=> #<Vips::Image ...>
pipeline.call(destination: "/path/to/destination")
You can continue reading the API documentation for specific modules:
See the wiki for additional "How To" guides for common scenarios. The wiki
is publicly editable, so you're encouraged to add your own guides.
Instrumentation
You can register an #instrumenter block for a given pipeline, which will wrap
the pipeline execution, allowing you to record performance metrics.
pipeline = ImageProcessing::Vips.instrumenter do |**options, &processing|
options[:source] #=> #<File:...>
options[:loader] #=> { fail: true }
options[:saver] #=> { quality: 85 }
options[:format] #=> "png"
options[:operations] #=> [[:resize_to_limit, 500, 500], [:flip, [:horizontal]]]
options[:processor] #=> ImageProcessing::Vips::Processor
ActiveSupport::Notifications.instrument("process.image_processing", **options) do
processing.call # calls the pipeline
end
end
pipeline
.source(image)
.loader(fail: true)
.saver(quality: 85)
.convert("png")
.resize_to_limit(500, 500)
.flip(:horizontal)
.call # calls instrumenter
Contributing
Our test suite requires both imagemagick and libvips libraries to be installed.
In a Mac terminal:
$ brew install imagemagick vips
In a debian/ubuntu terminal:
sudo apt install imagemagick libvips
Afterwards you can run tests with
$ bundle exec rake test
Feedback
We welcome your feedback! What would you like to see added to image_processing?
How can we improve this gem? Open an issue and let us know!
Credits
The ImageProcessing::MiniMagick functionality was extracted from
refile-mini_magick. The chainable interface was heavily inspired by
HTTP.rb.
License
Owner metadata
- Name: Janko Marohnić
- Login: janko
- Email: janko@hey.com
- Kind: user
- Description: Ruby developer, open source contributor, author of @shrinerb and rodauth-rails
- Website: https://janko.io
- Location: Brno, Czechia
- Twitter:
- Company: ButterflyMX
- Icon url: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/795488?u=a57b0fe8ae3be25f2fda53f9d8d7934f40767c1a&v=4
- Repositories: 188
- Last ynced at: 2025-10-29T16:58:09.945Z
- Profile URL: https://github.com/janko
GitHub Events
Total
- Issues event: 17
- Watch event: 54
- Issue comment event: 41
- Push event: 5
- Pull request event: 4
- Gollum event: 1
- Fork event: 7
- Create event: 1
Last Year
- Issues event: 13
- Watch event: 47
- Issue comment event: 38
- Push event: 5
- Pull request event: 3
- Fork event: 6
- Create event: 1
Committers metadata
Last synced: 2 days ago
Total Commits: 399
Total Committers: 24
Avg Commits per committer: 16.625
Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.17
Commits in past year: 10
Committers in past year: 3
Avg Commits per committer in past year: 3.333
Development Distribution Score (DDS) in past year: 0.2
| Name | Commits | |
|---|---|---|
| Janko Marohnić | j****c@g****m | 331 |
| GustavoCaso | g****o@g****m | 33 |
| Patrick Crowley | p****k@m****m | 11 |
| Brendon Muir | b****n@s****z | 2 |
| Geremia Taglialatela | t****a | 2 |
| Petrik de Heus | p****k@d****t | 2 |
| Bastian Bartmann | b****n@g****m | 1 |
| Andrew Stevenson | e****b | 1 |
| Chiorean Dan | c****2@g****m | 1 |
| Florian Frank | f****i@p****e | 1 |
| HM Tanbir | t****5@g****m | 1 |
| Ken Collins | k****n@m****t | 1 |
| Luke Rodgers | l****s@g****m | 1 |
| Olle Jonsson | o****n@g****m | 1 |
| Paul Filipow | p****l@f****a | 1 |
| Paul Götze | p****e@g****m | 1 |
| Paul Scarrone | p****e@g****m | 1 |
| Ryuta Kamizono | k****o@g****m | 1 |
| Thomas Menelle | t****e@g****m | 1 |
| Vít Ondruch | v****h@t****z | 1 |
| Yuji Yaginuma | y****a@g****m | 1 |
| ahorek | p****k@s****z | 1 |
| mark-young-atg | 1****g | 1 |
| printercu | p****u@g****m | 1 |
Committer domains:
- seznam.cz: 1
- tiscali.cz: 1
- filipow.ca: 1
- metaskills.net: 1
- ping.de: 1
- deheus.net: 1
- spike.net.nz: 1
- mokolabs.com: 1
Issue and Pull Request metadata
Last synced: 4 months ago
Total issues: 94
Total pull requests: 35
Average time to close issues: 4 months
Average time to close pull requests: 4 months
Total issue authors: 71
Total pull request authors: 20
Average comments per issue: 5.03
Average comments per pull request: 3.83
Merged pull request: 32
Bot issues: 0
Bot pull requests: 0
Past year issues: 8
Past year pull requests: 4
Past year average time to close issues: about 19 hours
Past year average time to close pull requests: about 1 month
Past year issue authors: 8
Past year pull request authors: 2
Past year average comments per issue: 2.5
Past year average comments per pull request: 4.0
Past year merged pull request: 4
Past year bot issues: 0
Past year bot pull requests: 0
Top Issue Authors
- mokolabs (7)
- renchap (4)
- metaskills (4)
- janko (4)
- etherbob (2)
- gencer (2)
- sandstrom (2)
- ndbroadbent (2)
- a-ta-ta (2)
- wbotelhos (2)
- doutatsu (2)
- lws68825 (2)
- PavarinE (1)
- andyrue (1)
- incubus (1)
Top Pull Request Authors
- janko (5)
- etherbob (4)
- brendon (4)
- tagliala (4)
- mokolabs (3)
- lukeasrodgers (2)
- mark-young-atg (2)
- p8 (2)
- GustavoCaso (1)
- coding-chimp (1)
- ahorek (1)
- y-yagi (1)
- chioreandan (1)
- olleolleolle (1)
- metaskills (1)
Top Issue Labels
- question (3)
- enhancement (1)
Top Pull Request Labels
Package metadata
- Total packages: 3
-
Total downloads:
- rubygems: 183,958,626 total
- Total docker downloads: 4,008,452
- Total dependent packages: 55 (may contain duplicates)
- Total dependent repositories: 31,292 (may contain duplicates)
- Total versions: 134
- Total maintainers: 3
- Total advisories: 1
gem.coop: image_processing
High-level wrapper for processing images for the web with ImageMagick or libvips.
- Homepage: https://github.com/janko/image_processing
- Documentation: http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/image_processing/
- Licenses: MIT
- Latest release: 1.14.0 (published 10 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-12-13T17:01:16.696Z (3 days ago)
- Versions: 44
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
- Downloads: 91,964,549 Total
- Docker Downloads: 2,004,226
-
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Downloads: 0.288%
- Average: 0.425%
- Docker downloads count: 1.411%
- Maintainers (3)
rubygems.org: image_processing
High-level wrapper for processing images for the web with ImageMagick or libvips.
- Homepage: https://github.com/janko/image_processing
- Documentation: http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/image_processing/
- Licenses: MIT
- Latest release: 1.14.0 (published 10 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-12-14T20:01:01.512Z (2 days ago)
- Versions: 44
- Dependent Packages: 55
- Dependent Repositories: 31,292
- Downloads: 91,994,077 Total
- Docker Downloads: 2,004,226
-
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.195%
- Downloads: 0.418%
- Dependent packages count: 0.511%
- Average: 1.388%
- Docker downloads count: 2.033%
- Stargazers count: 2.051%
- Forks count: 3.12%
- Maintainers (3)
- Advisories:
proxy.golang.org: github.com/janko/image_processing
- Homepage:
- Documentation: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/janko/image_processing#section-documentation
- Licenses: mit
- Latest release: v1.14.0 (published 10 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-12-13T09:31:23.545Z (4 days ago)
- Versions: 46
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
-
Rankings:
- Stargazers count: 2.196%
- Forks count: 2.987%
- Average: 6.39%
- Dependent packages count: 9.576%
- Dependent repos count: 10.802%
Dependencies
- pry >= 0
- dhash-vips >= 0 development
- minispec-metadata >= 0 development
- minitest ~> 5.8 development
- minitest-hooks >= 1.4.2 development
- rake >= 0 development
- mini_magick >= 4.9.5, < 5
- ruby-vips >= 2.0.17, < 3
- actions/checkout v2 composite
- ruby/setup-ruby v1 composite
Score: 29.070546157004