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Tag Archives: Leopard
How to build ohcount on Leopard
If you do not know ohcount, you should; the guys at ohloh.net have GPL’d one of their core components, namely the one that allows you to perform source code line counts in your own projects. Neat and useful!
However, the current ohcount distribution (which you can download from this link) does not build out-of-the-box in Leopard. Here’s how I made it work in my own Leopard G4 PowerBook (PPC) computer. Continue reading
Install MySQL_python in Leopard
I wanted to make my Django blog engine work on Leopard using MySQL as a database engine. I had a hard time making it work, partially because of my lack of knowledge of Python, partially because I am using MAMP instead of a “/usr/local/mysql”-like MySQL installation, partially because of Leopard itself.
The problem is, basically, that if you try to do the “easy_install MySQL_python” thing, it won’t work in Leopard (the compilation of the native code fails). Here’s how I made it work, following the instructions in this post in the MySQL forums, and doing some tweaking manually. Continue reading
Starting with Django in Leopard
As I’ve written earlier, I’m playing with Django these days. It’s a refreshing change, I must say, even if I admit that I prefer Ruby’s syntax to Python’s. Of course that’s just a purely subjective impression (I’m writing this while I try to avoid the rotten tomatoes thrown by angry pythonistas reading this) that does nothing to do with the power of the Python language + framework, which is by all means absolutely impressive.
In any case, I had to install a working Django environment in my machine, and while following the excellent and free Django Book instructions, this is what I did in my Leopard installation to have it up and running (Leopard already comes bundled with Subversion 1.4.4, Python 2.5.1 and SQLite 3.4.0, so you don’t need to do anything about them): Continue reading
Django & Leopard & the UTF-8 error
If you use Django on Leopard, you might encounter a strange “Locale UTF-8 not found” error when running your application. This is due to a bug in Terminal.app, albeit an easy to fix one: just go to the Preferences pane / “Settings” page / “Advanced” tab and uncheck the “Set LANG environment variable on startup” checkbox. Reopen your Terminal session, load the Django application and voilà! Your bug has disappeared. The screenshot below might help too:
Hope this helps!
PS: yes, I’m doing Django and hence Python these days ;)
Updating RubyGems and Rails in Leopard
If you just installed Leopard and the developer tools, you’ll find out that Ruby on Rails is there, ready to be used. But of course, it’s Rails 1.2.3, which is fine, but it turns out that last Friday Rails went 2.0. Not only that, but RubyGems was updated to 0.9.5 lately too… and you’re dying to have everything up and running on your system.
So how to proceed? Follow these instructions:
- Open Terminal.app
$ sudo gem update --system$ sudo gem install rails$ sudo gem update
If you just do “gem update”, then the current Rails installation will be broken. You must do ‘gem install rails” (which seems odd, because it was already installed, after all). The thing is that since you’ve updated RubyGems with the command 2) above, then you need to re-install Rails. I haven’t tried with other gems, but it could be the same situation for them.
Update, 2007-12-19: Here’s another solution for this problem!
git
If you haven’t tried git, you should. Git is a “distributed version control” system, that is, similar to Subversion with the big difference that… you do not need a server. There are only clients, any of them, and you can pull and push changes to and from other repositories from your project colleagues. The git Wikipedia entry does a much better job than me to introduce the subject :)
In Mac OS X, I’ve just downloaded the source code tarball with the latest snapshot of the code, and it compiled out of the box. Just the classical operations:
./configure make sudo make install
Then I went through the tutorial, and frankly, I loved it. The Everyday GIT Guide is excellent too to understand the idea of this beautiful piece of code.
It’s too cool, really. Lightweight, and damn fast. No wonder why everyone’s talking about it lately!
Little terminal trick
If you have to delete a folder which contains locked files, the Mac OS X Finder won’t let you (because the “locked” flag is used precisely for that!). If you want to remove such folder (typically folders coming from a Subversion checkout have this problem) run these commands:
sudo chflags -R nouchg to_destroy/
sudo rm -r to_destroy/
Where “to_destroy” is the name of the folder that you want to get rid of. As always, be careful! There is no confirmation dialog whatsoever! You’ve been warned.