osx

A recounting of our time spent in struggle with rvm and native Gem builds.

A portion of our journey was plagued by npm modules with native gyp builds.

I’d been having trouble getting /etc/hosts to consistently resolve a DNS entry on OS X in all the ways that are are important to me.

I had to go through this entire process twice – once on my work Macbook Pro, once on my identical home verison – so I figured I’d might as well write all of this crap down in the hope that it may reduce the shock and awe of future migrators.

Because the logs don’t clean themselves up. So of course I went looking for cron, and in the process, an OS X lesson was learned.

I was sitting at Cafe International and setting up RadRails when the HD on my two-week-old MacBook Pro 2008 went into beachball-of-death mode.

How to get the standard pre-packaged install of Java SE 6 for OS X Leopard to share its toys with Eclipse 3.4 Ganymede.