by David Orriss Jr | Jul 22, 2008 | Mac OS X, Programming, Rails, Ruby
While I was playing with Rails 2.1 I decided to try the SQLite3 support that comes built into OS X instead of using MySQL. Upon trying to run a migrate command via rake I was created with: rake aborted! no such file to load — sqlite3/database After some digging...
by David Orriss Jr | Apr 29, 2008 | J2EE, Java, Mac OS X
This Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1 adds Java SE 6 version 1.6.0_05 to your Mac. This update does not replace the existing installation of J2SE 5.0 or change the default version of Java. For more details on this update, please visit this website:...
by David Orriss Jr | Apr 28, 2008 | Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Windows XP
Has this ever happened to you? A few weeks back I copied a bunch of my music files in a folder on my Mac to a backup drive. Then I erased the files from my Mac – after all, I just backed them up. Weeks go by and I rip some more music. I then – thinking of...
by David Orriss Jr | Apr 26, 2008 | J2EE, Java, Mac OS X, Operating Systems
Installing WebLogic 10 on a Mac in OS X isn’t supported by BEA. But it’s possible. Here’s how. Download WebLogic Server from the BEA website. In the Select OS drop-down, choose IBM AIX. This will give you the WebLogic generic package. Open the...
by David Orriss Jr | Sep 23, 2007 | Mac OS X, Ruby
I saw this article on formatting ruby code for blogs. Nice article, but the code is Linux/KDE-specific. Also, OS X threw an error about the order of the require statements. Being that I use OS X (and so should you) I needed to make a couple of changes to the code that...
by David Orriss Jr | Sep 22, 2007 | Mac OS X, Ruby
Here’s a fun article on the Ruby Forum where someone provided a simple benchmarking utility. Several posters (including me) have run this to see how well Ruby runs on their system relative to other posters. n = 1_000_000 start_time = Time.now for i in 1..n t =...
