# Leopard Hiccups? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [October 30, 2007, 3:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/leopard-hiccups/118689 "2007-10-30T03:00:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jeffpritchard](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/43a26b/32.png) [@jeffpritchard](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeffpritchard)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 3:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/leopard-hiccups/118689/1 "2007-10-30T03:00:14Z")
Ok, I’m presently chicken rather than Leopard. I can’t get my work done without my development Mac, so I’ve been waiting patiently for you guys to bring up and solve all of the problems before I go over to the Mac store and cash my iPhone rebate in for Leopard. What’s shaking? No sign of any problems. If everything is peachy on my machine right now and I’m currently running Rails 1.2.3 with lighttpd and using Textmate on Tiger for development, will everything still be working well after the upgrade? No problems to solve? What about svnX? Fugu? Anything wacky about Terminal in Leopard? MySQL Server? CocoaMySql? Ancient Photoshop 7.0?(yeah, I know its old, but it still works fine for making buttons and such) Even for a Mac upgrade its hard to believe everything above will just work. Anybody find and solve any problems? thanks, jp ---
**Author:** ![jeffpritchard](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/43a26b/32.png) [@jeffpritchard](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeffpritchard)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 3:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/leopard-hiccups/118689/2 "2007-10-30T03:08:52Z")
There were some mentioned in the past few days. The topic that comes to mind right away is a freeimage / imagescience one. I followed the instructions given at the end of that thread and it worked perfectly. Terminal in Leopard is awesome, I love it. Textmate is fine, I don’t use fugu, svn is built-in so I’m guessing svnX will be ok, you have the CLI to fall back on if it is not. MySQL is fine, although I don’t use CocoaMySQL. Photoshop, haven’t traveled down that road yet. So yea, I used my iPhone rebate to buy leopard, and I use my mac for rails development (work) every day and I’m doing fine on leopard. ---
**Author:** ![jeffpritchard](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/43a26b/32.png) [@jeffpritchard](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeffpritchard)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 5:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/leopard-hiccups/118689/3 "2007-10-30T05:53:41Z")
I ran into some issues with ruby 1.8.6 and a rails project (used postgres). A lot of my tests where failing involving sql find orders. Tried different versions of rails, postgres adapters, postgresql versions and different locales. Only fix for me was installing ruby 1.8.5. Also if you want to use ImageMagick and Mac Ports you’ll need to install the tiff port first. sudo port install tiff -macosx Then install Image/R magick ---
**Author:** ![jeffpritchard](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/43a26b/32.png) [@jeffpritchard](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeffpritchard)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 6:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/leopard-hiccups/118689/4 "2007-10-30T06:05:57Z")
I installed fresh on a new hard drive in my MBP, Leopard pulled all of my apps / docs over from a usb external drive that had my 10.4 install on it. If you choose the option to bring over all of your old files, it will bring over your /usr/local as well. I was up and running immediately after the upgrade including macports, imagemagick, rails, ruby, etc. I run off my own rails / ruby stack out of /usr/local. YMMV of course, but I have had a pleasurable experience so far. I have noticed much improved battery life with Leopard. It was not bad before, but I have gained an average of 30 - 45 minutes. I also notice much better memory management. Good luck, it’s a killer upgrade! -Bill ---
**Author:** ![jeffpritchard](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/43a26b/32.png) [@jeffpritchard](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeffpritchard)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 3:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/leopard-hiccups/118689/5 "2007-10-30T03:32:15Z")
MySQL has some issues right now if you use the prefpane to start it… by which I mean it doesn’t start or stop the DB… you have to do it via the terminal. Other than that, I’m doing fine with it. I am still using my own Ruby / rails / SVN stack that I set up on Tiger tho. ---
**Author:** ![jeffpritchard](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/43a26b/32.png) [@jeffpritchard](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeffpritchard)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 6:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/leopard-hiccups/118689/6 "2007-10-31T18:55:25Z")
On 2007-10-29 19:00:14 -0700, Jeff P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) said: > No problems to solve? What about svnX? > Fugu? Anything wacky about Terminal in Leopard? MySQL Server? > CocoaMySql? Ancient Photoshop 7.0?(yeah, I know its old, but it still > works fine for making buttons and such) Isn’t Photoshop 7 a Classic App?? I forget now, it was so long ago… –Andrew V. ---
**Author:** ![jeffpritchard](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/43a26b/32.png) [@jeffpritchard](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeffpritchard)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 5:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/leopard-hiccups/118689/7 "2007-11-01T05:14:03Z")
Gimp just released 2.4, but not sure if there is a universal binary out yet. If not, there should be soon. I haven’t played with it yet, but from what I read it is a pretty big overhaul. -Bill ---
**Author:** ![jeffpritchard](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/43a26b/32.png) [@jeffpritchard](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jeffpritchard)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 8:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/leopard-hiccups/118689/8 "2007-10-31T20:59:41Z")
Andrew V. wrote: > On 2007-10-29 19:00:14 -0700, Jeff P. > [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) said: > > > No problems to solve? What about svnX? > > Fugu? Anything wacky about Terminal in Leopard? MySQL Server? > > CocoaMySql? Ancient Photoshop 7.0?(yeah, I know its old, but it still > > works fine for making buttons and such) > > Isn’t Photoshop 7 a Classic App?? I forget now, it was so long ago… > > –Andrew V. It depends on which definition of “Classic” you are using (to be very Bill C.esue about it). Not in the sense you mean, but it certainly is “Classic” in the sense that it was back in the good old days before Adobe crammed a whole bunch of useless crud onto the CD in hopes of justifying the ridiculous prices they charge for CS these days. Unfortunately, my fears were well founded. After the upgrade, it is not working. I need to hunt down the install CD and try re-installing my old PS before I give up on it, but it doesn’t look good. Guess I will have to explore GIMP and the Google offering along this line (don’t remember what its called). Thanks to everyone who spoke up on this thread. Except for PS, it was all completely trouble free, and I’m really enjoying “Spaces”. thanks, jp