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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 [...]

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…. 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 …… 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…. So, my final thoughts: I like the app and am sure it will continue to support more and more apps in the future.

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.

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I came across this article from http://blogsiegel.blogspot.com/ and got REALLY excited!… 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! Check out these pics of Money and IE running from inside of OSX: Codeweavers is providing Crossover for Mac at a pre-release price of $39.95.

Since I used Hivelogic’s setup 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 need to have Ruby and Rails installed at this time in order for the commands to actually work (yea, I know it’s obvious, but just needed to say). To install the rubi-dbi libraries ,the listed directions didn’t seem to work correctly so I tried: curl -O http://www.ch-werner.de/rubyodbc/ruby-odbc-0.996.tar.gz tar vxzf ruby-odbc-0.996.tar.gz Quick Note: if for any reason this doesn’t work through the terminal or you can’t get terminal to download the file, just download the files directly using your web browser, extract them, and move the files to your usr/local directory…. Now install every thing: cd ruby-odbc-0.996 ruby extconf.rb make sudo make install cd ..

So I’m no Ruby extpert but I’ve need of connecting Rails to a MSSSQL Server 200 DB. Find the directory to my Ruby installation (/usr/lib/ruby) and navigate to the 1.8/DBD directory (/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/DBD/ADO. I didn’t have the “DBD/ADO” so I had to create it.