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03
Feb 08

Building the MacPorts MySQL gem on OS X

I’ve been running with the Rails MySQL adapter for a while now after failing to build the native MySQL gem under Leopard. The problem, I thought, was that I’m using the Macports MySQL, and it turns out I was right. If you attempt to build the MySQL gem and you get an error like this:

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12
Nov 07

TextMate Rails Cheat Sheet

This is actually a duplication of this, but when I already have a million tabs open during the course of development, I’d rather not open another with a big fat Flash applet in it. So I created myself the following text only version. The characters I’ve used aren’t perfect, I’ll fix them when I get a chance..

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08
Nov 07

Removing plugins installed as svn:externals

I just had a problem with my svn repository after a couple of plugins I had installed as svn:externals (./script/plugin install -x http://blahblah) were no longer required and I wanted to remove them. Not something I’ve done before, but I found a handy article here, and all you have to do is this:

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31
Oct 07

AJAX loader image generator

I was looking for a nice animated ‘loading’ image to make an AJAXified interface a little friendlier and I came across a handy little site. Once size obviously doesn’t always fit all, but if you want something quick and simple, try this.


30
Oct 07

(com.apple.dyld) Throttling respawn: Will start in n seconds

I don’t know exactly what causes this (I’ve only had a Mac a week!), but upon installing Leopard today and installing a couple of updates, the system felt a little sluggish and so I took a look at my Console, and it was brimming with messages like this:

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