Month: March 2009

Installing Rails & MySQL On Mac OS X

First, isntall MySQL package installer from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.1.html#downloads DON’T DOWNLOAD THE 64-BIT VERSION!!! You must download the 32-bit version even if you have a 64-bit machine. Then I was able to…

Emulated ruby tags (ERB) tags

Some handy information about working with those less-than-percent sign things that appear in Emulated Ruby, or .rhtml files. example what it does evaluate/execute ruby code evaluate & return to buffer…

Rails Script shortcuts

Some great shortcuts for script generation. I always try to start by building scaffold for any new entity, then remove the scaffold as needed, leaving only the pieces of the…