February 2010
2 posts
Install pg gem via Bundler on OSX Snow Leopard
I encountered three problems installing the Postgres ruby gem (pg) when using Bundler to install all the gems for a project on my OSX Snow Leopard 10.6 machine.
Firstly, the gem fails to build on Snow Leopard when you use the binary version of Postgres that is distributed by Enterprise DB. To work around this, the Postgres binaires need to be installed using Mac Ports.
Secondly, the pg gem...
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Mediating ItemRenderers
ListBase, what it is and is not.
The ListBase classes are containers. In their simplest form, they mimic a typical OS list. In this capacity they work fairly well, and I see very little reason to mediate ItemRenderers. But they can be used for things far outside the scope of a typical list. This other use, I will refer to as the “Optimised Continuum Container”. Cool name eh?...