If you need to manage multiple gemcutter accounts and you’ve been doing it the manual way of updating ~/.gem/credentials every time you need to switch between accounts, you are going to love Keycutter Keycutter a is a ruby gem that allows you to easily manage multiple RubyGems.org API Keys. Installation $ gem install keycutter Usage [...]
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lib not found when installing rails
If you just installed rails and recived the following message: On Mac OS X the message is: file ‘lib’ not found On Linux Debian/Ubuntu the message is: File not found: lib The fix is to uninstall rails, install rdoc then reinstall rails. gem uninstall rails gem install rdoc gem install rails
Installing RVM as a multi-user install
Here are the steps to install RVM as a multi-user install instead of ~/.rvm # Installed RVM as a multi-user install will install rvm into: /usr/local/rvm/ which also creates the group rvm $ curl -L https://get.rvm.io | sudo bash -s stable $ source /etc/profile.d/rvm.sh You’ll also need to add your user(s) to the rvm group [...]
Simple ssh tunnel – SOCKS proxy
There are a lot of articles and blog post on the wild wild web about setting up a proxy or ssh tunnel on a Mac. All of the articles I’ve come across, complicate the process by either requiring browser configuration modifications, a half a dozen steps, and/or require additional software to be installed. A buddy [...]
TextMate 2 is now open source on GitHub
The best text editor just got better! “The source for TextMate 2 is now available at GitHub under a GPL 3 license. There is an interview at Ars Technica that gives some background about what motivated this decision.” This is very exiting and I’ll be following the development closely.
RailsInstaller for OS X Released!
Installing Rails on a Mac has been a very tedious and lengthy process for quite some time. Odds were, even if you followed one of the best step by step processes on the web, you were still faced with undesirable results caused by one of the dependencies (brew, git, gcc, rvm, ruby, Xcode, command line [...]
Enable Spell Checking in code comments for TextMate 2
TextMate supports ‘Check Spelling as You Type’ which works great for strings. but does not validate code comments. I have come across a lot of code with typos in the comments. The solution is simple. Create a Preference Item that checks spelling for all languages. Here’s how : 1. Go to: ‘Bundles’ → ‘Edit Bundles’ [...]
One email address for every account
There is a cool gmail trick that lets you use one email address as though it were several different addresses. Gmail lets you add “+something” to your mailbox name and still get your mail. For example, joe@gmail.com and joe+wordpress@gmail.com and joe+secretblog@gmail.com each look like different addresses to our system but they all route mail to [...]
How Geniuses Think
“How do geniuses come up with ideas? What is common to the thinking style that produced “Mona Lisa,” as well as the one that spawned the theory of relativity? What characterizes the thinking strategies of the Einsteins, Edisons, daVincis, Darwins, Picassos, Michelangelos, Galileos, Freuds, and Mozarts of history? What can we learn from them?” FULL [...]
Google’s Public Service Announcement – Good To Know
On my way home from work today I noticed a Google advertisement on the subway. Now I rarely pay much attention to subway advertisement. I’m either sleeping (yea that guy) reading a book or playing with my iPhone, though an ad from Google indeed caught my attention. Turns out it wasn’t advertisement at all. It [...]
