RMagick: ImageMagick Programming with Ruby

Conclusion

In this chapter, you saw an example of how to use ImageMagick with the RMagick Ruby interface. I showed you how to write a helper application that assists the user in deciding which transformations to apply to a group of images and then applies those transformations to the selected set of images. The sample application in this chapter was by no means complete, but it shows you the skeletal structure of what a more complete application would look like, without a lot of code getting in the way. Note that the Ruby programming language provides an expressive, powerful interface to ImageMagick, without bogging you down with having to write a lot of code.

In the remaining two chapters of the book, you’ll examine one last programming interface—this time for PHP—and then find out where to go from what’s covered in this book.