I installed Ruby on Rails with Passenger and an app. I must be nuts.
I won’t even get into the whole day it took me to install Ruby, Rails, and Passenger but I installed this application that mimics Craigslist. Included with it is a plugin Simple Captcha to generate captcha for posts. I installed everything but my captcha image wouldn’t load.
I found a Ruby on Rails forum and asked what could be wrong (I was stumped) and the creator of the script answered it and I started troubleshooting with his information. As I googled and googled my nimble little fingers off I decided to look at another website using the same application and that’s when the pieces started to fall into place…
I noticed the font was appeared to be Arial (was it? not sure but my guess led me to the answer). I started looking into how to make sure Imagemagick/RMagick was installed correctly and one site suggested that I do this command:
convert label:abcdef test.gif
It popped out an error along the lines of “can’t find arial.ttf located in /usr/share/fonts/default/TrueType” (I don’t remember the exact error but it was clear)
I recalled in some documentation regarding railslist that it used TrueType fonts for captcha. So I went here: http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ and compiled them.
It stuck them in /usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts
So I just copied the fonts inside that folder to /usr/share/fonts/default/TrueType and ran the convert label command and I got a test.gif.
Reloaded my site and it was there.
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