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Asked: May 19, 20262026-05-19T06:02:31+00:00 2026-05-19T06:02:31+00:00

I have paperclip working uploading and saving different styles for images but when i

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I have paperclip working uploading and saving different styles for images but when i go to crop the image using jcrop from railscasts tutorial it doesnt crop image. I get this error

[paperclip] identify -format %wx%h '/var/folders/z+/z+KzOZBFE9irCpbMKKBGFk+++TI/-Tmp-/paperclip-reprocess20110118-19757-1wtrjaj-0[0]' 2>/dev/null
[paperclip] convert '/var/folders/z+/z+KzOZBFE9irCpbMKKBGFk+++TI/-Tmp-/paperclip-reprocess20110118-19757-1wtrjaj-0[0]' -crop 28x32+13+15-resize "400x400>" '/var/folders/z+/z+KzOZBFE9irCpbMKKBGFk+++TI/-Tmp-/paperclip-reprocess20110118-19757-1wtrjaj-020110118-19757-1a5n558-0.jpg' 2>/dev/null
[paperclip] An error was received while processing: #<Paperclip::PaperclipError: There was an error processing the thumbnail for paperclip-reprocess20110118-19757-1wtrjaj-0>

This was working in rails 2.3.9 but hvae just upgraded to rails 3.0.3 I have got all latest gems etc.

The cropper.rb file is as follows and is in the initializers dir

module Paperclip
  class Cropper < Thumbnail
    def transformation_command
      if crop_command
        crop_command + super.join(" ").sub(/ -crop \S+/, '')
      else
        super
      end
    end

    def crop_command
      target = @attachment.instance   

      if target.cropping?
        " -crop #{target.crop_w.to_i}x#{target.crop_h.to_i}+#{target.crop_x.to_i}+#{target.crop_y.to_i}"
      end
    end
  end
end

The sizes are getting into this but no actually cropping the image.

Please can anyone help with this ?

thanks alot
Richard Moss

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    2026-05-19T06:02:32+00:00Added an answer on May 19, 2026 at 6:02 am

    Hereis my working file:

    module Paperclip
      class Cropper < Thumbnail
        def transformation_command
          if crop_command
            crop_command + super.join(' ').sub(/ -crop \S+/, '').split(' ') # super returns     an array like this: ["-resize", "100x", "-crop", "100x100+0+0", "+repage"]
          else
            super
          end
        end
    
        def crop_command
          target = @attachment.instance
          if target.cropping?
            ["-crop", "#{target.crop_w}x#{target.crop_h}+#{target.crop_x}+#{target.crop_y}"]
          end
        end
      end
    end
    
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