Rails Mountain Lion Errors

The Problem

If you’re starting rails server on Mountain Lion you might be encountering errors like these:

$ thin start
>> Using rack adapter
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-2.13.1/lib/RMagick2.bundle: dlopen(/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-2.13.1/lib/RMagick2.bundle, 9): Library not loaded: /usr/lib/libltdl.7.dylib (LoadError)
  Referenced from: /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-2.13.1/lib/RMagick2.bundle
  Reason: image not found - /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-2.13.1/lib/RMagick2.bundle
	from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-3.2.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:251:in `require'
	from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-3.2.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:236:in `load_dependency'
	from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-3.2.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:251:in `require'
	from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-2.13.1/lib/rmagick.rb:11
	from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.18/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:68:in `require'
	from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.18/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:68:in `require'
	from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.18/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:66:in `each'
	from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.18/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:66:in `require'
	from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.18/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:55:in `each'
	from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.18/lib/bundler/runtime.rb:55:in `require'
	from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/bundler-1.0.18/lib/bundler.rb:120:in `require'
	from config/application.rb:9
	from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require'
	from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require'
	from config/environment.rb:2
	from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require'
	from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require'
	from config.ru:3
	from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.4.1/lib/rack/builder.rb:51:in `instance_eval'
	from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.4.1/lib/rack/builder.rb:51:in `initialize'
	from config.ru:1:in `new'
	from config.ru:1

The Cause

Mountain Lion removes the /usr/lib/libltdl.7.dylib.

The Solution

1) Install XCode 4.4+ through the app store
2) Install the XCode Command Line Tools

XCode > Preferences > Downloads > Components

brew uninstall imagemagick
brew install --fresh imagemagick

4) Then to recompile the gem against the new version of imagemagick:

gem pristine rmagick

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