If only I had better Google_fu this post by Josh Goebel would have saved me a day. The key was remembering that Oniguruma is more than than a Rails gem. So you have to (1) make sure that Oniguruma is installed (I recommend via MacPorts) and then (2) make sure that the gem can find [...]
This is nothing Earth shattering but it seems that this has come up quite a bit lately and I wanted a place to keep the information handy. So here it is: If you want to force the use of SSL for a specific site, place this configuration in the .htaccess file in the document root. [...]
This post started as a comment to a recent post on KillerPHP.com entitled, “What happened to Ruby? And why PHP is KING of the Web.” The longer my comment became the more I thought I could use a little Google juice myself and why let someone else have all the fun?! A Twitter post by [...]
I just spent a few hours banging my head on this one but it appears that my local git configuration was the source of a Fixture::FormatError occurring while running tests in Rails. The specific error looked like this: Fixture::FormatError: a YAML error occurred parsing /dev/current/myapp/test/fixtures/blogs.yml. Please note that YAML must be consistently indented using spaces. [...]
It seems that a lot of folks are experiencing the “Error 51: Unable to communicate with the VPN subsystem” issue with Cisco’s VPN Client in Mac OS X. After much searching when I encountered the same issue, the solution turned out to be quite simple. Download and install the client from MacUpdate. Profit. There is [...]
I know that I should have these committed to memory by now but I don’t and I can never find them on the Web. Now I’ll never loose them! (Those sound like famous last words…) Symbol Command ⌥ option ⌃ control ⇧ shift ⇪ caps lock ⌘ command ⌧ clear ⌫ delete ⌦ del (erase [...]
During a recent Cincinnati Ruby Brigade meeting a new member who was running Windows would have benefited from a minimalist guide to installing Ruby on Rails on Windows. A few days later I was forced to press my old Windows desktop system into service as an emergency Rails development platform. So I decided to write [...]
Imagine my joy when the company owner decided (for reasons that I care not to divulge here) to swap his year old MacBook Pro for my nearly two year old Dell X1! I hadn’t been using the Dell since I also had a year old MacBook (white) and although I was giving up 20GB of [...]
To many of you this information will come as no surprise, but I’ve searched (perhaps not hard enough) for succinct definitions of the various “types” of software development tests and I recently found these which I have paraphrased. Unfortunately, I do not now recall the source from which I derived these notes. If you believe [...]
As I am want to do, I became involved in an exchange on Twitter with the lovely and talented Cal Evans concerning his thoughts about forsaking his current OS/hardware choice and going Mac instead. While this seemed like a slam dunk to me, one person’s experience seemed to be giving him pause. With Twitter’s 140 [...]