Starting MySQL on Leopard

For many, many months I have been seeking a website called "Angry Fly" and in particular the Fix for MySQL on Leopard page. It offered a quick and easy way for me to get MySQL started up on my Mac OS X 10.5 aka Leopard MacBook Pro. Worked ok on Tiger, but Leopard seems to be a bit more fussy.

I have just noticed a new comment today by Chris St.Germain.

"a new preference pane has been released from mySQL that actually works now! The file is: ftp://ftp.mysql.com/pub/mysql/download/gui-tools/MySQL.prefPane-leopardfix.zip "

This has made my day, a working MySQL preference pane in system preferences! Whoppee!

Leopard on Rails

So, Apple Mac OS X Leopard comes pre-installed with Ruby on Rails. I am currently running 10.5.1, but till now haven't even played with RoR on the spotty cat, till now...

Found a great post, Ruby on Rails on Leopard: A N00b's view. This was just what the doctor ordered. I hadn't installed the X Code tools, so did that and pretty much followed Jeremy's example.

I did get one problem, when running the sudo gem update --include-dependencies, I got an error message: ERROR: While executing gem … (OpenURI::HTTPError). Googled it, and found this post, which suggested trying the command again, which I did.

Like Jeremy I navigated to an old Ruby project directory, typed: "script/server start" and then pointed my browser to 0.0.0.0:3000 and got the default "Welcome on board" welcome. Great stuff, now for MySQL...

How to Size Text in CSS

Their may be an end in sight to the hard-fought web typography battle between designers and users, thanks to Richard Rutter and his A List Apart article - How to Size Text in CSS.

Peace.