All blog posts tagged with osx

Chromium daily builds on OSX

January 4, 2010

For anyone who's using Google Chrome on OSX, it's worth checking out the daily builds of Chromium. Be warned, these are daily developer builds but it seems pretty stable so far and is a lot more polished than the 'beta' that is available. 

There is a little utility you can download that will keep …

Read more

Making tabs in vim better

November 19, 2009

I've been using Vim for a long time and never bothered checking out the tab stuff because I assumed that it worked like tabs normally work... Turns out in Vim, tabs are actually very useful, but poorly named. They are more view ports or varying layouts than tabs in the conventional sense - and are v…

Read more

My Vim setup for Rails development on OS X

October 4, 2009

I've been using Vim for awhile as my primary editor and when I was first starting I did a lot of poking around to see what other peoples setups looked like, so I figured I'd contribute a quick article back to the innernets with my setup.

Only one of the plugins I have installed is actually Rails spe…

Read more

Cancel 'Secure Erase' from FileVault

September 7, 2009

I enabled FileVault on my laptop today, and not really thinking about it selected the 'Secure Erase old home directory' option. While this is a good idea if you have really sensitive documents, I don't, and the time (not to mention abuse of the hard drive) is not worth it for me. Sadly there is no o…

Read more

Color Picking in OS X

August 25, 2009

Ever need to find out what a color on your screen is in hex or rgb? Anyone doing any kind of design work has probably run into this before, and there are things out there you can install to do this... But I just discovered that OS X has a tool for this built in, and it's really quite good!

It's cal…

Read more

Fixing OpenSSL Certificates on OS X

September 19, 2008

While trying to use OpenURI in Ruby to connect to a https site, I kept running into an error with certificates - OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError: certificate verify failed. 

After some digging around on google I found a lot of solutions, but all of them involved manually specifying a path to a cert file or…

Read more

Ruby shared-mime-info gem and OS X

February 18, 2008

For anyone doing stuff requiring a good MIME library in Ruby, shared-mime-info works well. On OS X a few things are necessary to make it work though.

First, use ports to install the shared-mime-info database:

sudo port install shared-mime-info

Then you have to set XDG_DATA_DIRS to point at the right…

Read more

A few useful tools

December 11, 2007

I've found a couple nifty tools that I figured I'd share:

Rak is a grep replacement written in ruby - it has some pretty neat features including nicer output by default, ignoring .svn and other similar directories. Definitely worth poking through at least the info on the website.

Reggy is a very sim…

Read more

Installing ruby mysql gem in OSX 10.5 (Leopard)

November 9, 2007

It took awhile, but I've finally switched over to OSX - and from what I can tell by googling for "OSX Ruby mysql gem", have gone through what seems to be an initiation.

There are many, many, many posts on how to make it install - and most of them didn't work for me. I did get it to work though and a…

Read more

Displaying all 9 posts