SubscribeGood news! Whether you are using PostgreSQL for general development, or need a version to match your setup on Heroku, getting PostgreSQL 8.3 installed on Snow Leopard is fairly straight forward. However, you’ll want to make some changes so that it works right for you.
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Fixing Ruby Gems, MySQL and Passenger Phusion on Snow Leopard 10.6
One of the first things I noticed after upgrading to Snow Leopard is that my Passenger based sites stopped working. I use this heavily for Rails development, so I needed it fixed. The first thing I tried was reinstalling Passenger Phusion, which led to an error.
Mysql Ruby Gem Install Issues — Solved!
I ran into an issue today installing the ruby mysql gem on a fresh Leopard system with 10.5.1 installed and the MySQL 5 package for Intel installed. This is based on Dan Benjamin’s great work. To keep this easy, here is the low down. What was happening was an issue with it expecting headers for [...]
Judgement Day
The MacPorts funding bill is passed. The system goes online on February 20th, 2008. Human decisions are removed from strategic installation. MacPorts begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 3:03pm Eastern time, February 21st. In a panic, they try to pull the plug. And, MacPorts installs itself.
Enabling PHP5 on OS X 10.5 Leopard
Leopard (OS X 10.5) ships with PHP 5.2.4 (cli) installed along side Apache 2.2.6. However, it’s disabled by default. Here’s how to enable it. Open Terminal and choose your editor (vi, pico or other) and edit the following (sudo required!): /etc/apache2/httpd.conf Then search for the word php.It will find the line LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so. Uncomment [...]
It’s Not Just the Software Boys and Girls.
I spent about 20 minutes earlier today playing with an iPhone and all of the features. Texting, email, video, audio, browsing with Safari. The screen is simply beautiful.
The Apple Phone Show
A few months ago I expanded my podcast listening beyond TWiT and Windows Weekly to include MacBreak Weekly. Out of that show has emerged another solid podcast that should be great once the iPhone launches. The Apple Phone Show is put on by Scott Bourne and features guests like Chris Breen and Andy Ihnatko talking [...]