Category: fixes
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Textmate not recognizing html.erb in Rails HTML Bundle
With Ruby on Rails 2.0.2 fresh out of the gates and hordes of (us) DHH fanboys coding away in Textmate on their Macs will soon realize that the new .rhtml template is now .html.erb. This file extension isn’t recognized as Rails (HTML) by default in Textmate 1.5.7. All you need to do is edit the…
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Import Google Bookmarks into Camino Browser
If Camino 1.x isn’t importing your Google Bookmarks (http://www.google.com/bookmarks) properly (it can hang during the import process) an easy fix or solution is to import your Google bookmarks into Safari first (File menu > Import Bookmarks). Then from Safari, export the bookmarks to an HTML file. Then return to Camino and import the bookmarks from…
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MySQL ruby gem install problem on Mac OS X Leopard
For those of you using MySQL database server on Mac OS X Leopard while developing for Ruby or Ruby on Rails, you might have run into an issue with the mysql rubygem installing OK, but not actually loading properly in irb, nor completing unit tests successfully. If you’ve seen errors such as: $ irb >>…
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No Sound in QuickTime with DivX Movie Files
Have no sound when using QuickTime to play .avi or other movie films encoded with DivX? This is due to a missing audio codec for DivX encoded video files. Here’s a possible solution or fix to the problem of no sound in QuickTime DivX Movies.
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No Space Left on Device Error
In a follow up to my post about how to dual boot Tiger and Leopard on your Mac, this post is about removing large (unnecessary) files from your hard disk and recovering disk space on your hard drive before attempting to repartition Macintosh drives and dual booting. Many folks have been noticing that repartitioning disks…
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Focus to Menu Bar Not Working
Here’s a bizarre problem: All of a sudden I couldn’t hit the Ctrl F2 keyboard shortcut to set focus to the menu bar. It wasn’t because the shortcut was disabled through Ctrl F1 (by default the functions for keys F2 to F6 are disabled by default), it was due to some bizarre problem with Quicksilver…