Monday
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Double Shot #529
Monday, August 31, 2009 at 1:02AM
I'll likely be doing a Snow Leopard upgrade on my main dev box some time next week - after I have a good bootable backup. Meanwhile, I've collected a bunch of links to (I hope) avoid some of the trouble spots.
Other stuff
- Clogger - Configurable request logging as Rack middleware.
- Magic Model Generator 0.5 - Generate Rails models by reverse-engineering a database.
- s4ve.as - Easy file sharing, just upload and you get back a 24-hour bit.ly link to the file.
- Sumo: One-off EC2 Instance Launching - It's getting ever easier to just grab a chunk of CPU from the cloud when you need it.
- Greasemonkey Lives at GitHub and Sparkle Has Moved to GitHub - Two more high-profile projects come to easy source code sharing.
- How to become successful Rubyist - Interviews with a bunch of folks in the community.
- Inherited Resources is scopes and responder fluent - Some nice work to bring 3.0 syntax into 2.3 with this plugin.
- AquaPath - Tool to evaluate XPath 2.0 expressions against any XML doc on OS X.
- Sketches - Launch a text editor from IRB, automatically reload when the code changes.
- netboot.me - Service to let you netboot from the internet. That means, for example, being able to load up a LiveCD without actually having the CD.
- Paperclip and MongoMapper - Just in case you want to use Paperclip with one of those newfangled non-SQL databases.
- Embedding a Google Wave into Ruby on Rails - Some people will care about this much, much more than I do.
Snow Leopard Stuff
- How-To: Upgrade To Snow Leopard — The Right Way - Walkthrough of the "wipe and redo" method from Cult of Mac. I should probably do this with my dev box, but I dread the work.
- Mac OS X v10.6: About gamma 2.2 - Sorry Apple, I still prefer a gamma 1.8 display.
- Got MySQL to work with Rails in Mac OS 10.6: Snow Leopard - This appears to be one of the pain points for Snow Leopard.
- magick-installer - ImageMagick installer script for OS X.
- Snow Leopard Ruby/Rails Developer Setup - Notes and advice from Ryan Bigg.
- Snow Leopard: Upgrading for Rails Developers - Notes on fixing broken MySQL and gems from Jonathan Dance.
- TextMate Snow Leopard Bugs - With workarounds.
- Apple's 64-Bit 'Snow Leopard' OS Boots 32-Bit Kernel By Default - Not that it really matters all that much.
- Startup Mode Selector - Deeper explanation of 64 vs 32, and a utility to change the way Snow Leopard boots on your Mac.
- Epic Snow Leopard Upgrayyyyd Guide - More advice for those struggling with Ports, MySQL, and like that.
- driver - Snow Leopard-compatible replacement for the Passenger Preference pane.
- iCoreTech Research Labs - Lots of tips on what to build from where for Snow Leopard upgrades.
- homebrew - New packaging system for OS X with Leopard optimizations.
- Fixing Ruby Gems, MySQL and Passenger Phusion on Snow Leopard 10.6 - Advice from Greg Benedict.
Reader Comments (2)
I've found Inherited Resources to be very useful. I've used it for CRUD controllers for two of my recent projects and it works great. There's a bit of a learning curve at first but it gets easy. I'm hoping Rails 3's controllers are similar (i.e. simple and sparse).
Thanks for the link [=