So my good friend Map just happened to be using my computer and was amazed at this nice little application that displays your mail messages in a translucent overlay on your computer. The name is Mail Appetizer from Bronson Beta and it’s a definite “must-have” for life on a mac (if you’re using Mail.app, that is). Mail Appetizer allows me to quickly delete, read, or pop up a message and...

So I’ve got Crossover loaded up on my Mac and sure enough, I fired up the install of IE and I about pee’d my pants because it loaded without hitch. Now even though it loads the bottle win 98 … and does seem to look a little off, it’s pretty nice to see it run. 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...

If anyone is going along through the Agile Web Development with Rails book and gets to page 66 where you are using the migration “alter table products …” you’ll indubitably come across the error where Rails doesn’t seem to like what you’ve put in the migration file.

Here’s a nice script from Blog Siegel for installing RoR on Intel based Macs (based off the HiveLogic Blog posting). The script will install Darwin ports, Ruby, Rails, LightTPD, MySQL 5, Fast CGI, RubyGems, Readline, PCRE, and the FastCGI & MySQL bindings. Technorati Tags: Ruby on Rails

I came across this article from http://blogsiegel.blogspot.com/ and got REALLY excited! 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...

So here’s the rest of my getting Rails to connect to MSSQL experience … (See Part 1) Since I used Hivelogic’s setup (you can also install from Darwin .. which I’ll probably install on my laptop which I’ve already done and will forever ALWAYS do) for my Ruby and Rails installation, I just went back to my usr/local directory to do the rest of the work. I should also note that you’ll...

So I’m no Ruby expert but I’ve need of connecting Rails to a MSSSQL Server 2000 DB. I just wanted to offer a bit more explanation at the FreeTDS and iODBC pieces of the installation. UBER BIG DISCLAIMER: I’m no Rails export (had to say it again) so although I can try to help, please don’t hate me if for some reason these instructions don’t work for you; I’m just trying to...