I originally found myself here while beta testing a new subversion client and inadvertently clicking “yes” I want to upgrade my working directory. But that’s another story. Here’s what I did (I’m running Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard):

1. Download and install the Subversion 1.5 binaries from OpenCollabNet (via http://subversion.tigris.org/getting.html#osx). Once you download the .dmg, simply run the installer like you’d normally do any installer. You’d imagine that this would be all but it’s not because the new subversion installs to /opt/subversion/bin rather than /usr/bin.
2. Update your path by either editing the “~/.profile” (for your individual user profile) or “/etc/profile” (for all system users). I chose to do this for my system as I used several accounts for different purposes. If the file doesn’t exist you need to create it. Then add the following line to the top of the file: 
   export PATH=/opt/subversion:$PATH
3. Finally, rename the previous svn executable. You may find that you still cannot access subversion 1.5 if the 1.4 file is still available. Navigate to your /usr/bin folder and rename the old svn located there:
   $sudo mv svn svn.old
   • Thanks much Coals [2] Newcastle for helping me with this one. 
4. Now when running svn –version you should see the 1.5 client referenced.

Wel, all the skeptics can check out the new iPhone Guided Tour for 20 minutes of iPhone love … but then again, someone will have issues with these videos, too.

Evidently Verizon is working on releasing a competitor to the iPhone this summer called the LG Prada. I’m a big mac fan but a dedicated Verizoneer … it’ll be nice to see how it pans up. And hopefully it’ll support syncing with a Mac!!!!!! (from Macworld via News4mac.)

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:/journal_app imarichardson$ script/plugin install http://topfunky.net/svn/plugins/meta_tags/

+ ./meta_tags/CHANGELOG

+ ./meta_tags/MIT-LICENSE

+ ./meta_tags/README

+ ./meta_tags/Rakefile

+ ./meta_tags/about.yml

+ ./meta_tags/init.rb

+ ./meta_tags/lib/meta_tag_helper.rb

+ ./meta_tags/test/meta_tag_test.rb

“memory_test_fix” plugin:

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:/journal_app imarichardson$ script/plugin install http://topfunky.net/svn/plugins/memory_test_fix

+ ./memory_test_fix/README

+ ./memory_test_fix/Rakefile

+ ./memory_test_fix/about.yml

+ ./memory_test_fix/init.rb

+ ./memory_test_fix/lib/memory_test_fix.rb

For the record, I tried all my might but I could not find any references to the “meta_tags” plugin in the plugin archive at all, until I came across Nuby On Rails’ Article on The Complete Guide to Rails Plugins: Part II

So I’m really liking the Peepcode.com tutorials available for Rails development. I just purchased the “Test-First Development” tutorial from the site and was cranking through until I got to the 14 minute mark where you use RaPT (a replacement for the Rails plugin script) to install the calendar_helper plugin and received the error

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Error: RaPT currently does not work outside of a Rails application directory.  Please change to the top level of a Rails application and try again.

when trying to install the “calendar_helper” plugin via RaPT. Apparently this is an error popping up for several folks. Here’s what I did to get by:

• I downloaded the Firefox Rails Plugin Search Extension and searched for the “calendar_helper” plugin and got this page.
• Instead of using the RaPT installer, I just used the basic rails plugin script below, providing the location I saw on the page listed in the previous step:

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:/journal_app imarichardson$ script/plugin install http://topfunky.net/svn/plugins/calendar_helper

+ ./calendar_helper/MIT-LICENSE

+ ./calendar_helper/README

+ ./calendar_helper/Rakefile

+ ./calendar_helper/about.yml

+ ./calendar_helper/generators/calendar_styles/calendar_styles_generator.rb

+ ./calendar_helper/generators/calendar_styles/templates/blue/style.css

+ ./calendar_helper/generators/calendar_styles/templates/grey/style.css

+ ./calendar_helper/generators/calendar_styles/templates/red/style.css

+ ./calendar_helper/init.rb

+ ./calendar_helper/lib/calendar_helper.rb

+ ./calendar_helper/test/stylesheet_tester.html

+ ./calendar_helper/test/test_calendar_helper.rb

Beautiful … installation success!

UPDATE: Thanks from Manuel in the comments:

To be able to use rapt for these plugins you should first register the new sources as:

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rapt source http://topfunky.net/svn/plugins

After this is done you should be able to install the plugin using:

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This apply to every new source repository for plugins.
I hope this will clarify why you were unable to install this.

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The “Product” RED features collaboration with U2 man Bono and Oprah Winfrey. The iPods are going for $199 with $10 of each purchase going to the Project Red. It’s a little nice to se Apple jumping in something like this.

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While I’m at, here’s a list of the other important plugins for Apple Mail that I use on a regular basis:

• MailTags: allows you to “tag” and categorize your e-mail just like del.icio.us bookmarks.
• MailActOn: allows you to run little scripts to archive and extend your the rules you use for managing your e-mail.
• And here’s an article for using the GTD (Getting Things Done) menthodology with Apple Mail. I personally use the Apple Mail Tickler in my productivity life.

PS: and the video app I mentioned was VLC

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First thing I did was go to vongo.com (the service that gets you unlimited movies for $10 a month). OK, so I had big hopes that the service would actually work through crossover since there’s some licensing problem with Apple, but I guess they were still able to drill down to my OS … so that was a no go.

Next, and honestly this is why I need to have PC’able access, I want to run Flex Builder to build Flex apps. Well, the installer was recognized and ran through the initial extract, but wouldn’t queue up to the remainder of the installation. So a no go there, too.

On top of that since OSX “system-age” is mapped from the application to Crossover, the crossover db of resources and files has to be updated so that the windows app you want to use can in fact be run by Crossover – in short, every application will not work with Crossover. (Yea, yea, it’s still in beta…)

So, my final thoughts: I like the app and am sure it will continue to support more and more apps in the future. So I’ll go ahead and get Crossover (because of the cost discount right now), but I can’t live without Parallels either.

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AddPrice: migrating =====================================================



—add_column(:products, :price, :decimal, {:precision=>8, :default=>0, :scale=>2})



rake aborted!



You have a nil object when you didn’t expect it! You might have 

             \expected an instance of Array. 

             \The error occured while evaluating nil.



(See full trace by running task with—trace)

I found this post which helps out. It looks like the problem is with the decimal type specified so instead of what the book gives, type this as you’re migration and everything should work without a hitch:

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class AddPrice < ActiveRecord::Migration

  def self.up

      add_column :products,:price,:integer,:precision => 8,:scale => 2,:default => 0

  end



  def self.down

    remove_column :products, :price

  end

end

So it’s not really a fix and t doesn’t solve the fact that you don’t have a decimal, but at least it will let you move on through the book (and I still can’t figure out why it won’t work, even with rails “on the edge” working)…

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So there is BootCamp, then Parallels and now there is CrossOver for Mac. What’s really exciting is that Crossover allows you to run windows apps natively in OSX without any emulation, third party VMs, or through a different partition … you just open the app and run it inside of OSX!

Codeweavers is providing Crossover for Mac at a pre-release price of $39.95. I was really all about Parallels until about 20 minutes ago.