I followed the HiveLogic Ruby/Rails/Snow Leopard Install Guide and installed my own version of ruby/rails in /usr/local. Very straightforward and well reasoned guide. My installation did not work without some post-tweaking though. I had to change the /usr/local/bin/rake that gem installed to permissions 755. The “sudo gem install rake” command had the ownership/perms so that [...]
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I found I have to start eclipse with some new options to run 3.2 on Snow Leopard. $ ./eclipse -clean -consolelog -d32 -vm /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home/bin/java I need to run the java 1.5 vm and use 32 architecture (Snow Leopard uses 64 bit java by default). I was getting all sorts off odd errors otherwise — class [...]
Shutting down tomcat on non-default shutdown port.
Posted in tEch on May 20th, 2008
For the record, I vehemently agree with Peter, multiple tomcat setup is WAY under-documented and perfected. Sigh. tomcat apparently has supported multiple instances with one application install for a long time. But it’s still not clear how to shut them down independently. That said, I figured out a way!!! YAY!!!! $CATALINA_HOME/bin/shutdown.sh -config $CATALINA_BASE/conf/server.xml Long live [...]
Ok I upgraded to OS X Leopard today at work. I am bummed to notice that NetInfo is gone. Had not been aware of that. Its replaced by dscl whatever that is. Apple dscl help page is pretty sparse on this. Basically, go read a manpage. Yeah, we all love those. Also lookupd is bye [...]