Digital Sanctum

Finder in OS X seems to be retarded at finding hidden files and folders. In my case, I wanted to recursively remove all .svn folders from a directory. To do this, it’s command line to the rescue:

rm -rf `find . -type d -name .svn`

If you’ve tried installing the rjb 1.1.x gem on Mac OS X Leopard, you will probably end up with an error like:


lipo: can't open input file: /var/tmp//ccpyNy8b.out (No such file or directory)
make: *** [load.o] Error 1


In order to get around this you have to run the following commands:


sudo su -
export JAVA_HOME='/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Home'
gem install rjb


So I just finished updating OS X Leopard to 10.5.1 and found my default user account, which was an administrator, is now a standard user. After some Googling, I found a solution on Apple’s support site. So it seems you should NOT update unless you have the Leopard install disc handy.

Getting right down to business...

1. Download the Instant Client Packages (4 files)
2. Unzip the files into instantclient10_1
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   1. unzip instantclient-basic-macosx-10.1.0.3.zip
   2. unzip instantclient-sqlplus-macosx-10.1.0.3.zip
   3. unzip instantclient-sdk-macosx-10.1.0.3.zip
   4. unzip instantclient-jdbc-macosx-10.1.0.3.zip

3. Create two symbolic links for the files that have the version appended. This is so the Ruby OCI8 driver can find what it’s looking for.
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   1. cd instantclient10_1
   2. ln -s libclntsh.dylib.10.1 libclntsh.dylib
   3. ln -s libocci.dylib.10.1 libocci.dylib
   4. cd ..

4. Create directory /usr/local/oracle and then copy instantclient10_1 into it
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   1. sudo mkdir /usr/local/oracle
   2. sudo mv instantclient10_1 /usr/local/oracle/instantclient10_1

5. Open the system /etc/profile
sudo pico /etc/profile
6. Add these lines to /etc/profile
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   1. DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/oracle/instantclient10_1"
   2. export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
   3. SQLPATH="/usr/local/oracle/instantclient10_1"
   4. export SQLPATH

   Add /usr/local/oracle/instantclient10_1 to your PATH while you have /etc/profile open. Then save it.

7. Reload your profile
   
source /etc/profile

8. Test it out with the sqlplus command line app.
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   1. sqlplus [username][/password]@//[hostname][:port][/database]

If you can connect with that, then you’re good to go.