Problem:

• The application crashed when attempting to resize the image to a size of 50px x 50px.
• ActiveStorage was properly configured with the required dependencies.

def image_as_thumbnail
    image.variant(resize_to_limit: [50, 50]).processed
end

<td class="py-4 px-6 text-sm font-medium text-purple-500 whitespace-nowrap dark:text-white">
     <%= c.image.present? ? image_tag(c.image_as_thumbnail) : image_tag("https://via.placeholder.com/50") %>
</td>

• The following error message occurred when running the app:

| LoadError (Could not open library 'vips.so.42': vips.so.42: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
17:41:13 web.1  | Could not open library 'libvips.so.42': libIlmImf-2_5.so.25: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
17:41:13 web.1  | Searched in <system library path>, /usr/lib, /usr/local/lib, /opt/local/lib):
17:41:13 web.1  |   

• Libvips was already installed.

• Installed the missing dependencies:

sudo apt-get install libopenexr-dev

• Received the following error message:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libopenexr-dev : Depends: libopenexr25 (= 2.5.7-1ubuntu0.1~esm1) but 2.5.8-0ubuntu1~22.04.sav1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Solution:

• Checked for conflicting packages:

sudo apt-mark showhold

• Found no held packages.

• Installed ImageMagick:

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

• Downgraded to libopenexr25:

sudo apt-get install libopenexr25=2.5.7-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

• Installed libopenexr:

sudo apt-get install libopenexr-dev

• Fixed broken packages:

sudo apt-get install -f

• Reinstalled libopenexr:

sudo apt-get install libopenexr-dev

Following these steps resolved the issue with libopenexr and ensured that libvips could be used successfully for image resizing within the Rails ActiveStorage environment.