Quinn

My mom totally looks very happy, doesn't she? My younger sister gave a birth for her second child on December 20th. She lives happily with her husband and his parents in Hiroshima. However, she decided to welcome the new baby with the support of her mom and my family in Kumamoto. It seems this is a very common thing here in Japan.

Today, our three kids will meet this new-born cousin at the hospital. No worries needed. The baby and the mom are both in good shape. It is also common to take a longer time at a hospital after giving a birth in Japan, usually 5 days to a week. We are expecting them coming back to home on next Monday. It will be packed, 9 people in this small shack for next few months before they return to Hiroshima.

• Iranian-American Student Abused By UCLA UCPD With Tazer GUN

It's just awful to watch this video on YouTube. I lived in California for six years as a foreign student. It was full of challenge but not this one.

Most times, I develop stuff on FreeBSD. But lately, I'm feeling like developing some stuff directly on my PowerBook. Over the last weekend, I tried Four Days on Rails for the second time. I kind of finished this a long time ago but not quite complete. It was on FreeBSD for the last time but this time on Mac OS X.

I basically followed instructions on this page: Building Ruby, Rails, LightTPD, and MySQL on Tiger to setup the development environment. This is a really nice page but I encountered a few problems or just one thing. So I thought I would like to share it with whoever is interested.

It explains about editing a ~/.bash_login file to modify PATH, shell environment variables. However, it never worked for me. It appears to be reading only the two files, /etc/profile and ~/.bash_profile when I login or whenever I launch a window of Terminal.app.

I have both fink and darwinports installed, which certainly automatically modiifed ~/.bash_profile files to something like below.

export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
export DISPLAY=:0
test -r /sw/bin/init.sh && . /sw/bin/init.sh

In this situation, if I type echo $PATH in the Terminal window. The result would be like:

$ echo $PATH
/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin

I edited both root and my primary user's ~/.bash_profile files to:

test -r /sw/bin/init.sh && . /sw/bin/init.sh
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
export DISPLAY=:0

Then, this will change the order of PATH

$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin

Ok, now I am set. At first, I wasn't sure how to change the order of the PATH since ~/.bash_login was not working and ~/.bash_profile looked a bit weird. It gave me some troubles just like it's said on the page when I skipped this step. So, I suggest you won't fool about this if you're doing this one.

I previousely installed MySQL from MySQL 5.1 Downloads. It is really easy but if you are going for the first time, it's good to read Marc Liyanage - Software - Mac OS X Packages - MySQL as well.

Next thing I was interested in was Mongrel so I needed the latest Ruby. It should go fine as going through the instructions on the page says.

$ curl -O ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/readline-5.2.tar.gz
$ tar xzf readline-5.2.tar.gz
$ cd readline-5.2
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
$ make
$ sudo make install

It's just good to have readline.

$ curl -O ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.5.tar.gz
$ tar xzf ruby-1.8.5.tar.gz
$ cd ruby-1.8.5
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-pthread --with-readline-dir=/usr/local
$ make
$ sudo make install

Finished smoothly, but before I rush..

$ which ruby
/usr/local/bin/ruby
$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [powerpc-darwin8.8.0]

Just making sure it's pointing at the ruby I just installed.

$ curl -O http://rubyforge.iasi.roedu.net/files/rubygems/rubygems-0.9.0.tgz
$ tar xzf rubygems-0.9.0.tgz
$ cd rubygems-0.9.0
$ sudo /usr/local/bin/ruby setup.rb

$ which gem
/usr/local/bin/gem

Yap! it's all looking good! Now, I can play with the beautiful gem tools.

$ gem install rails --include-dependencies
$ gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql
$ gem install mongrel

And more gem tools are:

$ gem list
$ gem dependency rails
$ gem cleanup
$ gem update --system
$ gem uninstall rails

Finally, It' time to setup the rails application.

$ mkdir -p /path/to/application
$ rails /path/to/application
$ cd /path/to/application
$ mongrel_rails start -d

Once mongrel started the HTTP server, I can now access to the rails application from a browser with an address like:

127.0.0.1:3000

I also like the feature that I can easily set the port number with -p option. I suppose I could do the same with script/server but mongrel looks better.

$ mongrel_rails start -p 3001 -d

With this feature, I can launch several rails running on a same machine as development. I am all set now.

References:

• Building Ruby, Rails, LightTPD, and MySQL on Tiger
• Marc Liyanage - Software - Mac OS X Packages - MySQL
• HowtoInstallOnOSXTiger
• Using Ruby on Rails for Web Development on Mac OS X
• MySQL 5.1.12-beta
• Four Days on Rails
• Ruby on Rails will ship with OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
• Locomotive

Today, I was so happy to find out this. It was so easy to change the configuration for Firefox2.0 to show context menu by a long click. Here is what I did.

about:config

Typing this in the address bar, takes you to configure so much things for your Firefox. But, it's just so many. Then, I put "click" to filter the list of the configurations. Now you will easily find this line.

ui.click_hold_context_menus

It was set to "default: boolean: false" when I first looked at. By double clicking anywhere in this line will change to "user set: boolean: true." This immediately changes the behavior and you are now happy!

According to this page, this feature is only for Mac OS X version of Firefox.

• Ui.click hold context menus - MozillaZine Knowledge Base

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