Educate. Liberate.

Oh holy day, brand new operating system for me to poke my grubby little fingers at!

Leopard is a piece of work that is for sure, but for some of us getting back to the bliss that was the Rails development environment on Tiger will take a little doing. In today’s journey will get RMagick running again.

Apple has provided us with a near complete rails environment out of the box, but there are two big missing pieces: the mysql gem, and rmagick.

Normally, we would simply install rmagick with:

sudo port install ImageMagick
sudo gem install rmagick

But it turns out the tiff port in macports fails to build when using apples new implementation of opengl in leopard. so:

Getting RMagick, Leopard-Style

sudo port install tiff -macosx  #disables the linkage with Apple's open gl
sudo port install ImageMagick
sudo gem install rmagick

Simple as that.

One of the programming social media sites I browse (either Reddit or Dzone, I can’t remember), had a link to a new font called Inconsolata. I haven’t switched programming fonts in quite a while, after dumping ProFont for Monaco again some months ago, but I’m giving this new font a try. I have to say, it feels really nice.