This is the script I’m using when I start my local Rails development server. It will automatically detect the next available port starting at the default port 3000 so I can have multiple servers running without remembering what ports that are already busy. #!/usr/bin/env ruby DEFAULT_PORT = 3000 puts (`ps aux | grep [r]uby | grep script/server`.split(”\n”).map { [...]
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Modernize Rails (or: get rid of Verdana)
Tired of see the the soooo 1999-ish font “Verdana” every time you get a local error page in Rails? Now you don’t have to. With this plugin the error pages will use Arial or Helvetica instead—finally! To install: ./script/plugin install http://burnfield.com/svn/martin/rails/plugins/verdano or as svn:external: ./script/plugin install -x http://burnfield.com/svn/martin/rails/plugins/verdano I’ve moved to git so the new instructions are: [...]
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OmniFocus to iPhone bookmark exporter
Since the iPhone lacks the possibility to export tasks from iCal I made hack/script to export all tasks from OmniFocus to a Safari bookmark and therefore be syncable with Safari. Read more in the OmniGroup forums and/or download the latest version here. Update: On request, here are some screenshots of how the todo list looks like:
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Konst & Teknik site
My friends over at Konst & Teknik asked me to code their web site. It’s only one page, that should show the results from Google Image searches for the word in their name, “konst” and “teknik” (”art” and “technology” in swedish). I liked the idea and also got the opportunity to do some ruby scripting [...]
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Colhour as iChat picture 2.0
This is the second version of the Colhour as iChat picture I posted the other day. The biggest improvment is that it will show both the hours and the minutes. There’re two versions of the script. The first one uses a Ruby script together with RMagick to create every image on the fly with the current [...]