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Grr… Mac OS X and ctags

June 19, 2006 at 7:17 pm · Filed under All, OS X, SysAdmin

Another day, another software problem. This time, I’m taking the advice of Zed Shaw and attempting to use gvim for my text editing. I’m currently using Textmate, but I change my editor about as often as I workout (aka every two months). Enough rambling, gvim has support for this cool thing called ctags. I haven’t investigated it enough yet, but it’s apparently used to allow you to jump to the definition of a function, class, or what-have-you very easliy. Sounds cool right?

Unfortunately, the version of ctags that ships with Mac OS X is a piece of crap. Looking at the man page it’s only version 3.0 from 1993. That’s 13 years ago for those of you not into math. Anyway, the fix is simple (that’s in bold for those of you from google). Just install Darwin Port and then enter 

sudo port install ctags

That’ll get you up and good with a modern version.

P.S. – If you really want to install this by source and do not know how, let me know. I can easily do another write up on how that’s done.

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How to Make Pound And SSL Play Nice With OS X

June 9, 2006 at 5:23 pm · Filed under All, OS X, Programming, Rails, SysAdmin, Utilities

Though building sites with ssl is cool and gives your users a sense of security, configuring a webserver with ssl can be a royal pain. Thankfully, there’s pound. Pound is a “is a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end for Web server(s).”

Pound is dead simple to setup and configure. Unfortunately, the darwin port for pound is old and does not work. So this guide will help you build pound on your own. Besides, everyone feels cooler after compiling that hot fire. Click on for the steps.

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