Problem installing RMagick rubygem on Centos 5

Question

I\'m having problems installing the RMagick rubygem on Centos 5. I\'ve followed the steps detailed in http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/install2-linux.html but when I try:

Answer 1

kept getting this error after following the instructions in the most voted answer:

RMagick: unable to read font `(null)'.

so I have something to add to step 7, taken from an update to David Bock's blog:

http://blog.codesherpas.com/on_the_path/2009/09/installing-centos-5-imagemagick-and-rmagick-september-2009-edition.html

gem install rmagick -v 1.15.17 --no-rdoc --no-ri -- --disable-htmldoc

disabling html-documentation is crucial for avoiding further errors if your font files make rmagick unhappy. Just the outcome of about 2 hours of struggling with this issue.