Double Shot #529

I'll likely be doing a Snow Leopard upgrade on my main dev box some time next week - after I have a good bootable backup. Meanwhile, I've collected a bunch of links to (I hope) avoid some of the trouble spots.

Other stuff

• Clogger - Configurable request logging as Rack middleware.


• Magic Model Generator 0.5 - Generate Rails models by reverse-engineering a database.


• s4ve.as - Easy file sharing, just upload and you get back a 24-hour bit.ly link to the file.


• Sumo: One-off EC2 Instance Launching - It's getting ever easier to just grab a chunk of CPU from the cloud when you need it.


• Greasemonkey Lives at GitHub and Sparkle Has Moved to GitHub - Two more high-profile projects come to easy source code sharing.


• How to become successful Rubyist - Interviews with a bunch of folks in the community.


• Inherited Resources is scopes and responder fluent - Some nice work to bring 3.0 syntax into 2.3 with this plugin.


• AquaPath - Tool to evaluate XPath 2.0 expressions against any XML doc on OS X.


• Sketches - Launch a text editor from IRB, automatically reload when the code changes.


• netboot.me - Service to let you netboot from the internet. That means, for example, being able to load up a LiveCD without actually having the CD.


• Paperclip and MongoMapper - Just in case you want to use Paperclip with one of those newfangled non-SQL databases.


• Embedding a Google Wave into Ruby on Rails - Some people will care about this much, much more than I do.

Snow Leopard Stuff

• How-To: Upgrade To Snow Leopard — The Right Way - Walkthrough of the "wipe and redo" method from Cult of Mac. I should probably do this with my dev box, but I dread the work.


• Mac OS X v10.6: About gamma 2.2 - Sorry Apple, I still prefer a gamma 1.8 display.


• Got MySQL to work with Rails in Mac OS 10.6: Snow Leopard - This appears to be one of the pain points for Snow Leopard.


• magick-installer - ImageMagick installer script for OS X.


• Snow Leopard Ruby/Rails Developer Setup - Notes and advice from Ryan Bigg.


• Snow Leopard: Upgrading for Rails Developers - Notes on fixing broken MySQL and gems from Jonathan Dance.


• TextMate Snow Leopard Bugs - With workarounds.


• Apple's 64-Bit 'Snow Leopard' OS Boots 32-Bit Kernel By Default - Not that it really matters all that much.


• Startup Mode Selector - Deeper explanation of 64 vs 32, and a utility to change the way Snow Leopard boots on your Mac.


• Epic Snow Leopard Upgrayyyyd Guide - More advice for those struggling with Ports, MySQL, and like that.


• driver - Snow Leopard-compatible replacement for the Passenger Preference pane.


• iCoreTech Research Labs - Lots of tips on what to build from where for Snow Leopard upgrades.


• homebrew - New packaging system for OS X with Leopard optimizations.


• Fixing Ruby Gems, MySQL and Passenger Phusion on Snow Leopard 10.6 - Advice from Greg Benedict.