minimagick/minimagick
mini replacement for RMagick observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
97/100
- Activity 96
- Release rhythm 96
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 22
- age_days: 6755
- days_rel: 27
- days_push: 27
- n_releases_24m: 8
Adoption not part of the score
2863 stars · 348 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
MiniMagick is a lightweight Ruby wrapper around the ImageMagick command-line tool, serving as a memory-efficient alternative to RMagick. It exposes ImageMagick's full set of command-line options through a simple Ruby API for opening, modifying, and writing images.
Use cases
- resize images in ruby
- convert image formats like jpg to png
- process uploaded images without high memory usage
- apply image effects like contrast adjustment
- replace RMagick to reduce memory footprint
- manipulate images from URLs in ruby
When to choose
- you need ImageMagick functionality in Ruby with low memory overhead
- you want access to all ImageMagick command-line options
- RMagick's memory usage is crashing your hosted Ruby apps
When to avoid
- you need in-process image manipulation without shelling out to ImageMagick
- ImageMagick cannot be installed on your system
- you need very high-throughput processing where process spawning overhead matters
Facets
library · maturity stable
image-processing image-processing ruby cross-platform imagemagick ruby-gem image-manipulation memory-efficient
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/minimagick/minimagick · fetched 2026-08-28 · 61bf4950bc3f
- homepage: https://rubydoc.info/gems/mini_magick · fetched 2026-08-29 · 515ce163ad20
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| minimagick/minimagick | main | 97 |
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