toy/image_optim

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Ruby gem and command line tool that optimizes (losslessly, or optionally lossily) JPEG, PNG, GIF, and SVG images by wrapping external utilities like pngquant, jpegoptim, oxipng, and svgo. It can be used as a CLI, a Ruby library, or via integrations such as pre-commit hooks.

Use cases

• compress images losslessly before deploying a website
• reduce png and jpeg file sizes in a build pipeline
• optimize images in a ruby project as part of asset preprocessing
• shrink gif and svg files from the command line
• run image optimization as a pre-commit hook
• batch optimize a folder of images

When to choose

• you work in Ruby or want a scriptable image optimization pipeline
• you want a single tool that orchestrates many well-known image optimizers
• you need both CLI and library usage with fine-grained worker configuration

When to avoid

• you need a GUI image compressor (use ImageOptim.app instead)
• you are not on a platform where the external utilities are available and cannot use image_optim_pack
• you need heavy image editing or format conversion rather than optimization

Facets

library · maturity stable

image-processing cli compression image-processing files web-development developer-tools cross-platform cli ruby image-optimization lossless-compression jpeg png gif svg ruby-gem external-utilities

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