Henry Poydar henrypoydar

OBSOLETE

This entire guide is based on an old version of Homebrew/Node and no longer applies. It was only ever intended to fix a specific error message which has since been fixed. I've kept it here for historical purposes, but it should no longer be used. Homebrew maintainers have fixed things and the options mentioned don't exist and won't work.

I still believe it is better to manually install npm separately since having a generic package manager maintain another package manager is a bad idea, but the instructions below don't explain how to do that.

Fixing npm On Mac OS X for Homebrew Users

Installing node through Homebrew can cause problems with npm for globally installed packages. To fix it quickly, use the solution below. An explanation is also included at the end of this document.

Instrument Anything in Rails 3

With Rails 3.0 released a few weeks ago I've migrated a few apps and I'm constantly finding useful new improvements. One such improvement is the ability to log anything in the same way that Rails internally logs ActiveRecord and ActionView. By default Rails 3 logs look slightly spiffier than those produced by Rails 2.3: (notice the second line has been cleaned up)

Started GET "/" for 127.0.0.1 at Mon Sep 06 01:07:11 -0400 2010
  Processing by HomeController#index as HTML
  User Load (0.2ms)  SELECT `users`.* FROM `users` WHERE (`users`.`id` = 3) LIMIT 1
  CACHE (0.0ms)  SELECT `users`.* FROM `users` WHERE (`users`.`id` = 3) LIMIT 1

Rendered layouts/_nav.html.erb (363.4ms)

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<title>Three Things Today!</title>
	<link href='//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:300italic,400italic,600italic,700italic,800italic,400,300,600,700,800' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>

	<style>
	body{
	font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
	}

	<!doctype html>

	<html>
	<head>
	<!-- Run in full-screen mode. -->
	<meta name="mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">
	<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">

	<!-- Make the status bar black with white text. -->
	<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black">

	Capybara.default_wait_time = 20
	Capybara.default_host = DEFAULT_HOST
	Capybara.app = Capybara.app_host = DEFAULT_HOST

	Capybara.configure do \|config\|
	config.match = :prefer_exact
	config.ignore_hidden_elements = false
	end

	Capybara.run_server = false

	read -e IMAGE;
	defaults write com.apple.desktop Background "{default = {ImageFilePath='$IMAGE'; };}"
	killall Dock