Glorious Day

Codejoy — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:06:00 -0500

Finally Apple has done it, they announced a SDK for the Apple iPhone (and also for apples iTouch). What is an sdk to my non-techie readers, it stands for "Software Development Kit". Basically its a bunch of programs that allow a developer (me) to write programs and software for a device (iPhone/iTouch). Why is this a big deal? Cause it allows most ANY developer (not a big famous/rich/powerful) one to write software for these devices. The software(s) I plan to write, why they will be photographically related of course! Or I might go back to my roots and build some video games for your iPhone or iTouch (mobile gaming is where I got my game programming start professionally speaking) so who knows, the kit doesn't come out till feb but the knowledge that it is coming is a glorious thing.

Success!!!!

Codejoy — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 09:52:00 -0600

Finally, got rails and ruby and rflickr and RMagick all playing nice together... it took a bit but in the end I got it done. The drawinports way is the way I chose, and it worked well. The process is roughly like:

Use the MacOS X cd's to install the X11SDK package, and then the x11 package. This package (the x11 one) is hard to find, its on the cd in the "other packages" .mpkg file. Though I don't have the cd on me now so let me double check that name.

After thats done, you can get darwinports and follow the instructions here:

http://blog.nanorails.com/articles/2006/07/11/installing-rails-on-mac-os-x-tiger

A few gotcha's with RMagick, if you install it with the gem apparently you need to use: require 'rubygems' before the require 'RMagick'

Then you can install rflickr by calling:


sudo gem install rflickr --remote

and Instead of:

require_gem 'rflickr' do require 'flickr' as per here:

http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?thread_id=11449&forum_id=4256

So all that to say I now have Ruby On Rails working with RadRails on my macOSX tiger intel core 2 duo. w00t

Thomas On Rails: Category MacOS X

Glorious Day

Success!!!!