Install Ruby, Rails, and PostgreSQL on OSX
WARNING: This post contains some outdated instructions. Please read Installing Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL on OS X, Second Edition. Our Creative Director, Allison Beckwith, picked up a new black...
View ArticleRequest: Personal Finances for OSX
I’m looking to purchase a program for managing personal finances that runs on OSX.Any suggestions?
View ArticleRequest: Free OSX FTP Program
Sadly… I do find myself having to connect to a client’s FTP server. I don’t want to do everything from the command line, Finder’s builtin FTP sucks, everything else for the GUI seems to be shareware,...
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Installing Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL on OS X, Second Edition
It’s been just over a year since I posted the article, Install Ruby, Rails, and PostgreSQL on OSX and it still gets quite a bit of traffic. Unfortunately, there have been a few changes in the install...
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OS X Leopard Tip: Skitch on Every Space
If you’re using Skitch and the new Spaces in OS X Leopard, I would encourage you to set the following up.Uploaded with Skitch!This will allow you to use Skitch on any Space without needing to move it...
View ArticleUsing MacPorts Ruby and Rails after Upgrading to OS X Leopard
If you previously followed my article, Installing Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL on OS X, second edition and are now upgrading to OS X Leopard, you’ll want to make a few adjustments to your setup.First...
View ArticleStarting MySQL after upgrading to OS X Leopard
If you upgraded to OS X Leopard and are running MySQL from the MySQL.com installer1, you might be having some problems with starting it from the GUI interface. There isn’t a fix from MySQL yet, so to...
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Skitch... my favorite desktop application of 2007?
It just occurred to me that my first Skitch was on July 7th, 2007. 7/7/7. I’ve been meaning to post an article about how Skitch has changed the way our team approaches reporting bugs and communicating...
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Installing Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL on OS X, Third Edition
Over the past few years, I’ve helped you walk through the process of getting Ruby on Rails up and running on Mac OS X. The last version has been getting a lot of comments related to issues with the new...
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Campfire messages in Growl
Our team has slowly been transitioning from IRC to Campfire (iPhone interface helped with this decision) for internal team discussions. Earlier today, I decided to setup Campfire to connect to Growl....
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1Password and Fluid.app
I’ve been really happy with my purchase of 1Password so far. If you’re not familiar with it, I would really recommend their free-trial. I’ve been really impressed with how quickly it became reliant...
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Switch to Passenger (mod_rails) in development on OSX in less than 7 minutes...
We recently switched our default builds of Rails Boxcar to leverage the benefits of using Passenger (mod_rails) for deployment of your Ruby on Rails applications and it’s been working out great for our...
View Article82,520 minutes on Phusion Passenger
It’s been over 83,520 minutes since I made the switch from using mongrel as my development environment web server to Phusion Passenger. I’ve been extremely impressed with it. Our team has all switched...
View Article..and on the seventh day, Science created zsh
Inspired by some recent posts from Tom on zsh, I decided that I’d do my part to help people give it a whirl. I’ve been using zsh for a few years now and haven’t found myself missing bash.If you’re...
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Installing Ruby on Rails, Passenger, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oh My Zsh on Snow...
Welcome to what seems like my tenth installment (actually, it’s the fourth) of showing you how I setup my development environment on a fresh OSX install. In this case, I’m actually getting a MacBook...
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Reducing MySQL's memory usage on OS X Mavericks
Recently, I found myself re-installing everything from Homebrew and began to notice that MySQL was consuming nearly half a gig of memory. Given that I don’t do too much with MySQL on a regular basis, I...
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