In order to create PDFs with unicode (utf8) support within a Ruby on Rails app on Mac OS X, you need a fully working Latex installation including the ucs.sty extension. The best way to install Latex on a Mac OS X is using MacPorts. The following command will install Tex, Latex and a whole bunch [...]
If you receive an error message like the following from either curb or curl: curl: (1) Protocol https not supported or disabled in libcurl Then you might want to recompile curl with ssl support. If you are a Mac OS X user and you are using MacPorts this might look like this: sudo port install [...]
Voraussetzungen: MacOS X 10.5 (Leopard) MacPorts installiert MacPorts ruby installiert MacPorts mysql5 installiert Problem: Beim Versuch das mysql-Gem zu installieren (sudo gem install mysql) tritt folgende Fehlermeldung auf (Auszug): ERROR: While executing gem … (Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError) ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient… no checking for main() in -lm… yes checking [...]