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Mike Boone has posted a very useful tutorial on how to get MySQL gem and MAMP 1.7.2 up and running. So, to recap and make the tutorial compatible with Snow Leopard and MAMP 1.8.x, here is what you need to do:

1. Download the latest MAMP dmg file.
2. Download the 1.8.2 (or whichever the latest one you could find) components file from this page.
3. Unzip, mount the dmg, then copy the MySQL source file (mysql-5.1.37.tar.gz) to somewhere on your hard drive.
4. Untar the MySQL source file, and `cd` to the source file directory.
5. Compile the library:
$ ./configure --with-unix-socket-path=/Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock --without-server --prefix=/Applications/MAMP/Library

   $ make -j2


6. Copy the compiled libraries into MAMP:$ cp libmysql/.libs/*.dylib /Applications/MAMP/Library/lib/mysql
7. Copy the MYSQL headers into MAMP:
$ mkdir /Applications/MAMP/Library/include

   $ cp -R include /Applications/MAMP/Library/include/mysql


8. Install the Ruby MySQL Gem, on Snow Leopard:
$ sudo env ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-config=/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysql_config


   On Leopard:

   
$ sudo env ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386" gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-config=/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysql_config


Enjoy!

EDIT @ 2009-11-23: If you’re still experiencing problems (perhaps with RVM), try adding “/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/” to your $PATH in “~/.bash_profile”.

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Please check out the code on Github.

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Even though the method outlined in my previous post would still work, I thought I’d post a cleaner one to handle the auto-load of Zend Framework classes in Kohana.

The code works with Zend Framework 1.8+, where a new Autoloader class has been introduced.

You can put the code in an appropriate place in your application, it could be in the base controller, or if you’re using Kohana 3.0, in the bootstrap file.

You now no longer need to manually ‘include/require’ Zend Framework files. :)

if ($path = Kohana::find_file('vendors', 'Zend/Loader'))
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Well, my personal take is, I will *try* to make my sites and apps compatible with IE6, but only if the consequences (i.e. increased development time and code complexity) are negligible.

Naturally, I would want to direct my IE6 users to a “stop IE6 / save the developers” kind of site, encouraging them to upgrade their browser. After some quick Google searches, I can’t actually find one that is simple and pretty.

So, I reinvented the wheels. Meet WhichBrowserForMe.org!

Please spread the site around and tweet about it, so more and more web developers and designers can start using it, and hopefully more and more users will become aware of the fact that using IE6 is a bad thing.

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Okay, here is a *very* early teaser, please check out Wuit. Make sure you sign up for the notification, we will inform you about our products and services once they become available.

In a nutshell, Wuit will develop a series of open source and commercial applications, stay tuned. :-)

Meanwhile, please feel free to follow us: @wuitcom, @fredwu and @scotti3g.

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