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Fixing OpenSSL Certificates on OS X

September 19, 2008

While trying to use OpenURI in Ruby to connect to a https site, I kept running into an error with certificates - OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError: certificate verify failed. 

After some digging around on google I found a lot of solutions, but all of them involved manually specifying a path to a cert file or…

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Ruby shared-mime-info gem and OS X

February 18, 2008

For anyone doing stuff requiring a good MIME library in Ruby, shared-mime-info works well. On OS X a few things are necessary to make it work though.

First, use ports to install the shared-mime-info database:

sudo port install shared-mime-info

Then you have to set XDG_DATA_DIRS to point at the right…

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A few useful tools

December 11, 2007

I've found a couple nifty tools that I figured I'd share:

Rak is a grep replacement written in ruby - it has some pretty neat features including nicer output by default, ignoring .svn and other similar directories. Definitely worth poking through at least the info on the website.

Reggy is a very sim…

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Installing ruby mysql gem in OSX 10.5 (Leopard)

November 9, 2007

It took awhile, but I've finally switched over to OSX - and from what I can tell by googling for "OSX Ruby mysql gem", have gone through what seems to be an initiation.

There are many, many, many posts on how to make it install - and most of them didn't work for me. I did get it to work though and a…

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