Developing Rails Application on Mac OS X Leopard

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With Ruby on Rails you can build powerful and dynamic web sites. Read this article to learn how to develop your application using Xcode 3.0 and the tools that come pre-installed in Leopard.

Ruby on Rails is a popular and powerful open source web framework for rapidly creating high-quality web applications. Rails is thriving on Mac OS X, and Leopard comes pre-installed with Ruby, Rails, Mongrel, Capistrano, Subversion, and other tools that help to streamline the development and deployment of Rails applications. We will use the Organizer feature of XCode 3.0 to demo the step of the development.

This article gives you a full tour of Ruby on Rails 2.0 on Mac OS X Leopard and building a web application using the latest Rails features with Xcode 3.0.

Leopard Finder - Smart Sidebar Items

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Initially, Leopard Finder has 6 pre-defined smart folders on it sidebar. Actually, there are 11 of them provided. How to activate all 11 of them?

They are called CannedSearches

First of all, you should spot them first. If you follow these simple steps, spotting them won't be hard :

1. Open Finder
2. Go to Macintosh HD ▸ System ▸ Library ▸ CoreServices ▸ Finder
3. Right-click on Finder icon and choose Show Package Contents
4. Dig inside Contents ▸ Resources ▸ CannedSearches

Mac and Windows - Similarities

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Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2006.

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Leopard - Activate 26 Menu Extras

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There are 26 items come along with your Mac OS X that can be attached onto your menu bar. Here is the shortcut to show them all on your menu bar.

Perhaps you have read the new book by David Pogue, The Missing Manual : Mac OS X - Leopard Edition. There is inside written the complete list of all Leopard menu bar items and how to attach them onto your menu bar.

Leopard Mod Tools

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Probably some of you guys like to use leopard default features, but some of you may want to do some modification to the current look and feel, theme, the way it works, so that we can increase our productivity, fun and also mood. There is one software that can do most of the stuffs as what I have posted earlier here by using some terminal command line. LeopardMod is the name of this software. It has functionality to tweak finder, dock, dashboard, safari, menu bar, and also expose.

Leopard - Change Default Icon

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I've found several interesting icons, but how can I change all icons in just one shot?

Preview Tutorial - Embed Icon into Stack Drawer

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It's Something Like This..

You Only Need Preview..

The drawer above can be easily made with only your Mac OS X Leopard little humble Preview.

Fluid - Convert Web into Applications

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Everyday in your working days, you probably need to check all the same e-mail, news, website or maybe favorite blog site. You should try using Fluid.

Distinguishable Icons

With Fluid, you can convert all of them into each separate applications, which are easily distinguishable. And you will find that you won't need to cycle all your opened web browser tabs in order to find particular site. The icon is customizable and you can put it on your Dock.

Some Nice Leopard Wallpapers

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Killer Leopard Trick - Finder Screen Sharing

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Talking about Screen Sharing, the reflection of iChat shouldn't be far away from your mind. Actually, the Screen Sharing itself is provided in your Finder.

Screen Sharing Whereabouts

Just now I told you that Screen Sharing is separated from iChat. To prove that, you could go to Mac HD ▸ System ▸ Library ▸ CoreServices which Mac HD is your hard drive name. Inside there, you will definitely find Screen Sharing.

Leopard Preview Trick : Grab Icon

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Responding my recent article Easiest Way to Grab Icon, Luke provides very nice trick that I believe putting it here will be helpful.

With a simple highlight and import, Preview can display exactly the displayed icon. Let's see how to do it.

Leopard : Essential Applications for Blogger

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I've become a blogger for quite a long time. During the process of compiling my article, these applications are essentials for me.

Editing Images

Adobe Photoshop CS2

This is my basic image editor. For blogging purpose, CS2 is more than enough but if you've quite a money on hand, you can purchase CS3. I love it especially when I can give effects on images with Photoshop.

Leopard Mail Tricks : Using Notes

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I remember the last time I used my Mac OS X Tiger, I used Journler to take some notes.

Since the upgrade to Leopard, I started falling in love with mail and its new features : Notes and To Do. However, this time I'll share you my way to use Notes efficiently.

Before step further, I recommend you to download additional plugin for Mail. It's called Letterbox which I've discussed a little in my past article Get Various Leopard Enhancements for Free.

Shortcuts play the most important parts in increasing productivity. Therefore, in the middle this discussion, I'll include many useful shortcuts.

Leopard Tricks : Dictionary

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Adding Reference Libraries

By default, your dictionary's reference libraries shown are Wikipedia, Dictionary, Thesaurus and Apple. Obviously, you can add more references to it.

First, go to your Dictionary Preferences Pane by either using keystrokes [,] or using menu bar Dictionary ▸ Preferences. Then you will see there are more than four default references which is available for your Dictionary.

Leopard Tricks - Quick Look

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Look inside Property List

It's a tough time for me to figure out how to read file with type Property List (for tweaking purpose). I tried to use TextMate but it's been expired. I also tried to use TextEdit but all I can see were mysterious codes. However, Quick Look seems to be working well with this kind of files.