# minimagick/minimagick

mini replacement for RMagick

Repository: https://github.com/minimagick/minimagick
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/minimagick
Homepage: https://rubydoc.info/gems/mini_magick
Language: Ruby
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-08-06T06:18:24+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 97/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 96, release rhythm 96, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6755, "days_push": 27, "days_rel": 27, "gap_med": 22, "n_releases_24m": 8}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2863, forks 348 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:26.353838+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: image-processing
- domain: image-processing
- platform: ruby, cross-platform
- tags: imagemagick, ruby-gem, image-manipulation, memory-efficient

## Member repositories
- minimagick/minimagick (main) score 97

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:26.353838+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:36:19.896481+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/minimagick/minimagick (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:26.353838+00:00, sha 61bf4950bc3f)
  - homepage: https://rubydoc.info/gems/mini_magick (fetched 2026-08-29T09:51:54.085813+00:00, sha 515ce163ad20)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.