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Mark James Adams http://raysend.com/mark/

6 total

On This Page:

  1. 1 Install postgres gem on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
  2. 2 Install RdbiPgSQL package for R on OS X
  3. 3 Change OS X font smoothing in one application
  4. 4 Refresh rate in Vienna
  5. 5 load/unload postgres (via ports) launch deamon
  1. 6 shell/vim .rc's for Japanese support (UTF-8)

Install postgres gem on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

to ruby osx gem postgres postgresql by madams on Mar 24, 2008
When upgrading or installing recent versions of the postgres ruby gem on Leopard the following error appears

	===========   WARNING   ===========

		You are building this extension on OS X without setting the
		ARCHFLAGS environment variable, and PostgreSQL does not appear
		to have been built as a universal binary. If you are seeing this
		message, that means that the build will probably fail.

		Try setting the environment variable ARCHFLAGS
		to '-arch i386' before building.

		For example:
		(in bash) $ export ARCHFLAGS='-arch i386'
		(in tcsh) $ setenv ARCHFLAGS '-arch i386'

		Then try building again.

		===================================


The trick is to set the ARCHFLAGS variable inside the sudo command using env.

sudo env ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386" gem install postgres

Install RdbiPgSQL package for R on OS X

to osx postgres R postgresql by madams on Oct 12, 2007
Connecting R to Postgres on OS X is a little bit of a hassle given where OS X looks for the libraries to link to.

Assuming you've installed Postgres via MacPorts, add shell variables for your Postgres lib and include directories to ~/.profile

export PG_LIB_DIR=/opt/local/lib/postgresql82
export PG_INCLUDE_DIR=/opt/local/include/postgresql82


Add a link from the OS X SDK directory to /opt

$ sudo ln -s /opt/ /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/opt


Then install RdbiPgSQL as you would normally.

If the install fails because R isn't picking up the PG_LIB_DIR, _INCLUDE_DIR variables, keep a lookout for the lines in the install error output that look like


The downloaded packages are in
	/tmp/RtmpTakYpZ/downloaded_packages


In Terminal, change to this directory, replacing the 'RtmpTakYpZ' string with whatever directory the error output gives. Then run the R install command on the package file:

$ cd /tmp/RtmpTakYpZ/downloaded_packages
$ sudo R CMD INSTALL RdbiPgSQL_1.10.0.tar.gz




Change OS X font smoothing in one application

to osx textmate font by madams on Aug 23, 2007
E.g, Light font smoothing style in Textmate.

$ defaults write com.macromates.textmate AppleFontSmoothing -int 1

Refresh rate in Vienna

to osx rss terminal by madams on May 08, 2007
Change the default refresh rate in seconds for the Vienna RSS reader to whatever you want. Anything less than 1800 seconds might be considered bad netiquette, but it's useful if you're only subscribed to internal feeds (e.g., activeCollab, Connector). 

defaults write uk.co.opencommunity.vienna2 CheckFrequencyInSeconds 60

load/unload postgres (via ports) launch deamon

to osx launchd postgres by madams on Mar 19, 2007
Enable or disable the automatic launch of the postgresql server installed via macports. Starts or stops the daemon and modifies the launchd manifest.

launchctl load -w /opt/local/etc/LaunchDaemons/org.darwinports.postgresql81-server/org.darwinports.postgresql81-server.plist

launchctl unload -w /opt/local/etc/LaunchDaemons/org.darwinports.postgresql81-server/org.darwinports.postgresql81-server.plist

shell/vim .rc's for Japanese support (UTF-8)

to shell osx terminal vim Japanese by madams on Jun 03, 2006
Get Japanese (and other multibyte, ascii-unfriendly languages) working in the Terminal.

.inputrc (bash)
set convert-meta off
set meta-flag on
set output-meta on


.cshrc (tcsh)
set dspmbyte=utf8


.vimrc
:set enc=utf-8
:set fenc=utf-8


And don't forget 'ls -w' or 'ls -v' to display files and directories.

Preferences: Uncheck 'Emulation > Escape non-ASCII characters';

More at Apple Support - Topic: Displaying foreign characters in the Terminal command line.
6 total

On This Page:

  1. 1 Install postgres gem on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
  2. 2 Install RdbiPgSQL package for R on OS X
  3. 3 Change OS X font smoothing in one application
  4. 4 Refresh rate in Vienna
  5. 5 load/unload postgres (via ports) launch deamon
  1. 6 shell/vim .rc's for Japanese support (UTF-8)