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Jam - The JavaScript package manager. In private browsing & search | Stop online tracking & malware | Disconnect. OSX For Hackers. Bundler: The best way to manage Ruby applications. Read the manual for an in-depth discussion of all of the options available in the Gemfile and how to use them. Gemfile manual Gemfiles require at least one gem source, in the form of the URL for a Rubygems server. Generate a Gemfile with the default rubygems.org source by running bundle init. If you can, use https so your connection to the rubygems.org server will be verified with SSL. source ' Declare the gems that you need, including version numbers. Specify versions using the same syntax that Rubygems supports for dependencies. gem 'nokogiri'gem 'rails', '3.0.0.beta3'gem 'rack', '>=1.0'gem 'thin', '~>1.1' Most of the version specifiers, like >= 1.0, are self-explanatory.

Rubygems version specifiers If a gem's main file is different than the gem name, specify how to require it. gem 'rspec', :require => 'spec'gem 'sqlite3' Specify :require => false to prevent bundler from requiring the gem, but still install it and maintain dependencies. Learn More: Bundler.require. Ciarán Walsh’s Blog » QuickLook and TextMate. QuickLook in TextMate This is a TextMate plug-in which allows you to QuickLook items in your project, either by selecting the item(s) you want to preview and using QuickLook from the context menu, or pressing ⌥␣ when the project drawer has focus. Download QuickLook in TextMate here. TextMate in QuickLook This is a TextMate plug-in and a QuickLook generator which renders QuickLook previews (for certain filetypes) using the TextMate syntax highlighter.

Currently it’s configured to highlight Perl, PHP, Ruby, Shell, C headers and Obj-C(++). Download TextMate in QuickLook here. The QuickLook generator will be automatically installed by the plug-in the first time it loads. Needless to say, both these plug-ins are Leopard only. BrushView QuickLook PlugIn | BrushViewQL. Folder List Quick Look plug-in.

QLStephen, is a QuickLook plugin that lets you view plain text files without a file extension. QLStephen is an Apple OSX QuickLook plugin that lets you view plain text files without a file extension. It is useful for reading files like: READMEINSTALLCHANGELOGMakefileRakefileCapFile These are files that the default QuickLook plugins doesn't handle. It was built to scratch an itch, as I was finding that quicklook is useful for searching through source before I installed new programs, and the first file I would want to see, the README was the only file I coudn't. QLStephen solves that. You can find out more via the QuickLook Github page. Please Download the latest build: Download QLStephen (10 KB) - OSX Leopard 10.5 or greater View or fork the source via GitHub: git clone Launched: Nov 2008 Author: Duncan Robertson [

QuickLook Plugins List. BetterZip 2 - The Next Generation of Archiving. Wouldn't it be great if Mac OS X's Quick Look would let you inspect the contents of compressed archives? With the help of the BetterZip Quick Look Generator, it can. The currently supported archive formats are: ZIP, TAR, GZip, BZip2, ARJ, LZH, ISO, CHM, CAB, CPIO, RAR, 7-Zip, DEB, RPM, StuffIt's SIT, DiskDoubler, BinHex, and MacBinary.

Installation Download it here, unpack, and copy the BetterZipQL.qlgenerator bundle to your /Library/QuickLook folder (if you want to install it for all users on your Mac) or to the ~/Library/QuickLook folder, this is the Library/QuickLook folder inside your user folder. You may need to create the QuickLook folder inside ~/Library first. The Quick Look framework will need a little time before it realizes that a new generator has been added. Customization Toggle whether you like to see hidden files and package contents.Choose which columns to display.Toggle whether the header section should scroll out of the window or be kept in place.

Homebrew — MacPorts driving you to drink? Try Homebrew! Installing Ruby, Rails, and MySQL on OS X Lion. Hi, folks! What’s new? Not much here, either. Just hanging out on Treehouse Island. How have you been? We’re going to be using homebrew and rvm to get this all up and running. For the purposes of getting everything up and running quickly, I find rvm to be a bit easier to use and explain so I’m going to use that. Install Developer Tools Before we install either Homebrew or rvm, we need to have a compiler installed. Another option is to use the osx-gcc-installer. Install Homebrew Homebrew is “The missing package manager for OS X.” A Word of Warning The instructions that follow run a shell script directly from a web site that you are not in control of. Nevertheless, we’re going to trust the homebrew team and run this script. Moving On Open up the Terminal application that comes with OS X.

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL You should see a bunch of text going by at this point and having it seem like something is installing. Install Git brew install git Summary.