Is there an equivalent for using matplotlib.image in ruby - ruby

Question

Been experimenting with using Ruby inside a jupyter notebook. With Python I can do this
import matplotlib.image as mpimg
Does anyone know the equivalent with Ruby, I have not been able to find it in any of the iRuby or sciruby documentation?
To clarify a little, In my gemfile I have this
gem 'iruby'
gem 'cztop'
gem 'matplotlib'
But cannot seem to get access to the image part of matplotlib that I am use to using in python.
I am trying to find the Ruby version of what, in Python, I would write like this
#importing some useful packages
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.image as mpimg
...
%matplotlib inline
#reading in an image
image = mpimg.imread('test_images/solidWhiteRight.jpg')
#printing out some stats and plotting
print('This image is:', type(image), 'with dimesions:', image.shape)
plt.imshow(image) #call as plt.imshow(gray, cmap='gray') to show a grayscaled image
Thanks so much for any suggestions

Answer 1

This is how far I can get it to work in jupyter notebook on MacOSX:
require 'matplotlib/pyplot'
plt = Matplotlib::Pyplot
image = plt.imread 'test.png'
puts "This image's dimensions: #{image.shape}"
plt.imshow(image)
plt.show()
I used your Gemfile with the additional gem rbczmq to avoid the kernel dying (hint found here):
gem 'iruby'
gem 'cztop'
gem 'matplotlib'
gem 'rbczmq'
Note that I used a .png because matplotlib can only read PNGs natively without PIL installed.
This is how the result will look like:
Displaying the result inline as in the python version:
seems to be impossible.