Using the guard gem to run tests etc in your Rails app normally requires some form of file system monitoring. The monitoring will be OS dependant and rb-fsevent is the gem for OSX. This can be added to the Gemfile conditionally with: gem ‘rb-fsevent’, :require => false if RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /darwin/i Unfortunately when you next […]
I realise that OSX does not have a registry to clog up but I have just reinstalled Lion on my Macbook Air; probably a hang up from Windows. This is a checklist for installing Homebrew >> Rails. Install XCode 4.1 (There are issues with the 4.2 compiler and certain rubies and gems) Install Homebrew https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/installation […]
The Stack To run WordPress locally you will need Apache, MySQL, and PHP installed. Although OS X comes with some of these it is more convenient to use MAMP. MAMP comes in a free version and a Pro version, for my purposes the free version should be fine. Installation is just copying a folder from […]
Most of my programming career has revolved around Microsoft technologies, starting with Visual Basic 3, up through the various versions to VB.Net, then switching to CSharp shortly after DotNet came out of beta. I think I know the MS development stack fairly well and I like the direction they are moving in with the likes […]
I am currently developing on a Mac, running Visual Studio on a Windows 7 VM courtesy of Parallels. There are a number of issues to resolve the first of which is the key mappings. I am using the Mac bluetooth keyboard and a few keys are mapped incorrectly: Pressing this key Results in this output […]