Jon’s Diary

Thanks to this brilliant guide, I have just upgraded my 15″ MacBook Pro (2nd Gen Core Duo) hard drive from 100GB to 500GB.

The major benefit from this is that my 50GB iTunes library, and my 65GB iPhoto library can now reside on my local disk, rather than an external firewire drive.

If you’re doing any maintenance on your mac, i’d definitely recommend the ifixit guides!

Thanks to my good friend Benji for letting me know … but there is a fixed version of the GrowlMail plug-in available here:

http://www.elusive.cx/2009/02/26/safari-4-and-growl-a-fix/

Thanks BK!

As above …

To fix, simply remove the plug-in. Depending on how you installed it, the plug-in will either be in /Library/Mail/GrowlMail.mailbundle or in ~/Library/Mail/GrowlMail.mailbundle.

Open terminal and delete the folder above (depending on your installation) and all will be fixed. Re-install the plug-in when Apple have fixed the conflict, and remind yourself that it’s not called “beta” software for no reason!

Here’s a surprise! Safari includes some comprehensive debugging tools as standard. How do you get it? Just open a terminal and run the following:

defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1

Now, restart Safari, and heypresto!

For quite a while now I’ve been developing websites on my MacBook Pro using Ruby on Rails. I’d been waiting for a particular website to move to the live server before I upgraded to Leopard, so that I didn’t have to rely on my laptop for a working Ruby on Rails environment. Recently I got the opportunity to upgrade, and so here I am with Leopard installed trying to figure out how to get a working Ruby on Rails environment again.

Since the release of Leopard, OS X ships with Ruby on Rails pre-installed. However, it’s not in a particularly useful configuration. For a start MySQL isn’t installed, and Rails instead uses SQLite as the default database. Hopefully this will give you some guidance on creating yourself a useful Ruby on Rails environment in Leopard.
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