Carrierwave, MiniMagick - NoMethodError: undefined method `size' for nil:NilClass

Question

On staging, I'm facing the following error on uploading and resizing an image through carrierwave and minimagick. On local everything works fine.

carrierwave (0.9.0) mini_magick (3.7.0)

irb(main):003:0> PicturePost.create(remote_content_url: 'http://www.imagpress.com/img/slider/slider_1.jpg')
NoMethodError: undefined method `size' for nil:NilClass
from /home/deploy/apps/staging/blog/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/mini_magick-3.7.0/lib/mini_magick.rb:24:in `choose_processor'
from /home/deploy/apps/staging/blog/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/mini_magick-3.7.0/lib/mini_magick.rb:64:in `mogrify?'
from /home/deploy/apps/staging/blog/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/mini_magick-3.7.0/lib/mini_magick/image.rb:360:in `run_command'
from /home/deploy/apps/staging/blog/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/mini_magick-3.7.0/lib/mini_magick/image.rb:171:in `valid?'
from /home/deploy/apps/staging/blog/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/mini_magick-3.7.0/lib/mini_magick/image.rb:140:in `create'
from /home/deploy/apps/staging/blog/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/mini_magick-3.7.0/lib/mini_magick/image.rb:48:in `read'
from /home/deploy/apps/staging/blog/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/mini_magick-3.7.0/lib/mini_magick/image.rb:111:in `block in open'
from /home/deploy/apps/staging/blog/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/mini_magick-3.7.0/lib/mini_magick/image.rb:110:in `open'
from /home/deploy/apps/staging/blog/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/mini_magick-3.7.0/lib/mini_magick/image.rb:110:in `open'
from /home/deploy/apps/staging/blog/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/carrierwave-0.9.0/lib/carrierwave/processing/mini_magick.rb:260:in `manipulate!'
from /home/deploy/apps/staging/blog/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/carrierwave-0.9.0/lib/carrierwave/processing/mini_magick.rb:176:in `resize_to_fill'
from /home/deploy/apps/staging/blog/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/carrierwave-0.9.0/lib/carrierwave/uploader/processing.rb:85:in `block in process!'
from /home/deploy/apps/staging/blog/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/carrierwave-0.9.0/lib/carrierwave/uploader/processing.rb:81:in `each'
from /home/deploy/apps/staging/blog/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/carrierwave-0.9.0/lib/carrierwave/uploader/processing.rb:81:in `process!'
from /home/deploy/apps/staging/blog/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/carrierwave-0.9.0/lib/carrierwave/uploader/callbacks.rb:18:in `block in with_callbacks'
from /home/deploy/apps/staging/blog/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/carrierwave-0.9.0/lib/carrierwave/uploader/callbacks.rb:18:in `each'
9 levels...
from /home/deploy/apps/staging/blog/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/carrierwave-0.9.0/lib/carrierwave/uploader/download.rb:65:in `download!'
from /home/deploy/apps/staging/blog/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/carrierwave-0.9.0/lib/carrierwave/mount.rb:353:in `remote_url='
from /home/deploy/apps/staging/blog/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/carrierwave-0.9.0/lib/carrierwave/mount.rb:203:in `remote_content_url='
from /home/deploy/apps/staging/blog/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/carrierwave-0.9.0/lib/carrierwave/orm/activerecord.rb:44:in `remote_content_url='
from /home/deploy/apps/staging/blog/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.15/lib/active_record/attribute_assignment.rb:85:in `block in assign_attributes'
from /home/deploy/apps/staging/blog/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.15/lib/active_record/attribute_assignment.rb:78:in `each'
from /home/deploy/apps/staging/blog/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.15/lib/active_record/attribute_assignment.rb:78:in `assign_attributes'
from /home/deploy/apps/staging/blog/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.15/lib/active_record/base.rb:498:in `initialize'
from /home/deploy/apps/staging/blog/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.15/lib/active_record/persistence.rb:44:in `new'
from /home/deploy/apps/staging/blog/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/activerecord-3.2.15/lib/active_record/persistence.rb:44:in `create'
from (irb):3
from /home/deploy/apps/staging/blog/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.2.15/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:47:in `start'
from /home/deploy/apps/staging/blog/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.2.15/lib/rails/commands/console.rb:8:in `start'
from /home/deploy/apps/staging/blog/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/railties-3.2.15/lib/rails/commands.rb:41:in `<top (required)>'
from script/rails:6:in `require'

Can't figure out why this is happening.

Answer 1

Had forgotten to install imagemagick on my new server. This solved the issue for me

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

Answer 2

Looks like its a problem with mini_magick 3.7.0. Have a look at this issue

Answer 3

If you are using the yum package manager (like I am for AWS Opsworks). You can do

yum install ImageMagick

note: ImageMagick spelt as camelcase

Answer 4

For other people who are using Rails and using mini_magick instead, change the version to 3.5 in your gemfile, as 3.6 is broken for image upload with mini_magick and simply doesn't work with version 3.7.

Answer 5

If you use some IDE probably the problem can solved just by restarting of IDE. I spend so much time trying to find solution for this problem. And this simple operation worked for me.

Answer 6

This error occurs when MiniMagick looks for the commands mogrify or gm and fails to find either one.

As mentioned in another answer, you need to make sure that ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick is installed with a command such as

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

However, this problem can also occur if ImageMagick is installed in a non-standard location and is not available on the path of the Rails process. For example, if you install from source into /usr/local/bin, that location might not be on the path. In this case, to ensure that your path is set up correctly, add this line to application.rb, environments/production.rb, or some other appropriate place:

ENV['PATH'] += File::PATH_SEPARATOR + '/usr/local/bin'

Note that your path might be different depending on how the application is started, e.g. from the command line vs. from a system init file, so adding a line like this is important to ensure that MiniMagick will work correctly under all circumstances.

Under Linux, you can inspect the path of a running Rails process by finding the pid and then looking at /proc/<pid>/environ.

Answer 7

Homebrew & Yosemite-centric Answer:

http://thornelabs.net/2014/12/08/libpng-not-symlinking-when-installing-imagemagick-on-os-x-yosemite.html

Sure, you'll need to reinstall ImageMagick, but if running

brew install imagemagick

Gives you an error like:

Error: The `brew link` step did not complete successfully
The formula built, but is not symlinked into /usr/local
Could not symlink share/man/man5/png.5
/usr/local/share/man/man5 is not writable.
...

First, check that your username has permission with

ls -al /usr/local/share/man

if you don't, you'll need to run

sudo chown -R yourusername /usr/local/share/man/man5
brew link libpng

Hope this saves someone some hours.

-B