What I Learned Today
I wrote a gigantic post about internationalization in Rails for the Viget Extend blog today. Go check it out to see what I've learned about that.
I also learned something simple today. I'm using MongoDB for something, and I wanted it to start up under OS X when I log in. I've created a LaunchDaemon before, but I'd forgotten where to start. Once I found and read this good article on creating your own daemons, it wasn't hard from there. I ended up with:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
"http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>org.mongodb</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/Users/cnixon/lib/mongodb/bin/mongod</string>
<string>run</string>
</array>
<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<true/>
</dict>
</plist>
If you drop that under ~/Library/LaunchAgents, you'll be in business.
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