Is there a simple way to get image dimensions in Ruby?

Question

I'm looking for an easy way to get width and height dimensions for image files in Ruby without having to use ImageMagick or ImageScience (running Snow Leapard).

Answer 1

You could try these (untested):

http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/805

PNG:

IO.read('image.png')[0x10..0x18].unpack('NN')
=> [713, 54]

GIF:

IO.read('image.gif')[6..10].unpack('SS')
=> [130, 50]

BMP:

d = IO.read('image.bmp')[14..28]
d[0] == 40 ? d[4..-1].unpack('LL') : d[4..8].unpack('SS')

JPG:

class JPEG
  attr_reader :width, :height, :bits

  def initialize(file)
    if file.kind_of? IO
      examine(file)
    else
      File.open(file, 'rb') { |io| examine(io) }
    end
  end

private
  def examine(io)
    raise 'malformed JPEG' unless io.getc == 0xFF && io.getc == 0xD8 # SOI

    class << io
      def readint; (readchar << 8) + readchar; end
      def readframe; read(readint - 2); end
      def readsof; [readint, readchar, readint, readint, readchar]; end
      def next
        c = readchar while c != 0xFF
        c = readchar while c == 0xFF
        c
      end
    end

    while marker = io.next
      case marker
        when 0xC0..0xC3, 0xC5..0xC7, 0xC9..0xCB, 0xCD..0xCF # SOF markers
          length, @bits, @height, @width, components = io.readsof
          raise 'malformed JPEG' unless length == 8 + components * 3
        when 0xD9, 0xDA:  break # EOI, SOS
        when 0xFE:        @comment = io.readframe # COM
        when 0xE1:        io.readframe # APP1, contains EXIF tag
        else              io.readframe # ignore frame
      end
    end
  end
end

Answer 2

libimage-size is a Ruby library for calculating image sizes for a wide variety of graphical formats. A gem is available, or you can download the source tarball and extract the image_size.rb file.

Answer 3

There's a handy method in the paperclip gem:

>> Paperclip::Geometry.from_file("/path/to/image.jpg")
=> 180x180