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send headers with Selenium and PHPUnit?

antonio lorusso — Wed, 02 May 2012 21:37:09 +0000

Just dont waste your life and use curl if you need to do that.

I know, this is a useless post but I just wasted a huge amount of time trying to find a solution and I feel like giving this advice to someone.

happy testing

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.

antonio lorusso — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 13:58:51 +0000

Tired of this:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = "en_US:en", LC_ALL = (unset), LC_CTYPE = "en_GB.UTF-8", LANG = "en_US.UTF-8" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
Do this:
export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8 sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

Be happy again

Ruby 1.9.3-p125 and RVM on Mac

antonio lorusso — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:32:41 +0000

A new ruby version is out and it’s time to upgrade! The first try gave me this error:

? ~ rvm install 1.9.3-p125 Error running ' ./configure --prefix=/Users/antonio/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p125 --enable-shared --disable-install-doc --with-libyaml --with-opt-dir=/Users/antonio/.rvm/usr ', please read /Users/antonio/.rvm/log/ruby-1.9.3-p125/configure.log There has been an error while running configure. Halting the installation.

Adding the compiler option “–with-gcc=clang” worked:

? ~ rvm install 1.9.3-p125 --with-gcc=clang Install of ruby-1.9.3-p125 - #complete

enjoy Ruby

Nokogiri, RVM, Homebrew and headhache!!!

antonio lorusso — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 13:32:48 +0000

Thanks to a gist (which I forked and slightly changed) I was able to finally install Nokogiri on my mac:

export BREW_HOME=/usr/local

brew install libxml2
brew link libxml2
brew install https://github.com/adamv/homebrew-alt/raw/master/duplicates/libxslt.rb
brew link libxslt
brew install libiconv
brew link libiconv
gem install nokogiri -- --with-xml2-dir=$BREW_HOME/Cellar/libxml2/2.7.8 --with-xslt-dir=$BREW_HOME/Cellar/libxslt/1.1.26 --with-iconv-dir=$BREW_HOME/Cellar/libiconv/1.13.1/

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If you had MacPorts previously installed, it might still not work so
sudo mv /opt/local /opt/local_old
and try again.

Enjoy

OpenVPN at startup in OSX

antonio lorusso — Sun, 08 May 2011 23:11:25 +0000

The easiest way of getting an OpenVPN client on mac is with Tunnelblick but you will join the VPN only when you have logged in. Sometimes you need your mac to connect at startup instead and I’ll show you how to do it:

create /etc/rc.local and copy/paste the following three lines in it:

#!/bin/bash /sbin/kextload /Applications/Tunnelblick.app/Contents/Resources/tap.kext /sbin/kextload /Applications/Tunnelblick.app/Contents/Resources/tun.kext

then create a Launch script like this for each of the vpn you want to connect to, replacing YOURVPNNAME, YOURCONFIGFILE, YOUR/CONFIG/FOLDER accordingly:

Label org.openvpn.YOURVPNNAME OnDemand Program /Applications/Tunnelblick.app/Contents/Resources/openvpn ProgramArguments openvpn --config YOURCONFIGFILE.conf RunAtLoad TimeOut 90 WorkingDirectory YOUR/CONFIG/FOLDER

save each script into /Library/LaunchDaemons/ folder using a name for the file like org.openvpn.YOURVPNNAME.plist, then change the user and group to root:wheel with the following command in a terminal window:

sudo chown root:wheel /Library/LaunchDaemon/org.openvpn.YOURVPNNAME

last commands to register and execute your Launch scripts are:

sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemon/org.openvpn.YOURVPNNAME.plist sudo launchctl start org.openvpn.YOURVPNNAME

a restart should be the very last thing to do and once your mac has started you shoud be connected to your vpn network(s)!

enjoy

UPDATE: the new version of tunnelblick 3.2beta26 does have the the “connect when computer starts” functionality that automatically makes this post obsolete. I’ll just keep it for the records

Exclude files and directories from Apache Auth

antonio lorusso — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:35:52 +0000

It would have made sense to use LocationMatch with a negative lookahead regex pattern like “^/(?!admin)” but that doesnt work. Neither work a rule like !”^/admin” so here is a workaround:

AuthType Basic AuthName "Restricted Files" AuthUserFile /var/www/clients/client12/web17/passwd AuthGroupFile /dev/null Require valid-user SetEnvIf Request_URI "^/(admin|skin|js|index)(.*)$" allow SetEnvIf Request_URI "^/favicon.ico$" allow Order allow,deny Allow from env=allow Satisfy Any

This basically allow the access without authentication to the directories/files that start with admin, skin, js or index. The other rule allow the favicon too.

VIM and the clipboard on Ubuntu

antonio lorusso — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:16:56 +0000

If you want to copy and paste from Vim to the clipboard, install the package vim.gtk and enjoy the command “+y !

Rails and PostgreSQL

antonio lorusso — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:17:54 +0000

Complaining, screaming, sweating, swearing …. why it doesnt work … jeeeeeezzz/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.8/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:76:in `establish_connection': Please install the postgres adapter: `gem install activerecord-postgres-adapter` (no such file to load -- active_record/connection_adapters/postgres_adapter) (RuntimeError)

And then a light … “I upgraded postgresql recently!”

Just reinstall the postgres gem and you are done…

What a night!

map and grep: from Perl to PHP

antonio lorusso — Mon, 17 May 2010 14:57:29 +0000

Probably many of you already know but here is the correspondent in PHP of the two fundamentals Perl functions:
map => array_map grep => array_filter
Too lazy to give you examples .. I think you can work it out yourself.

PHP-FPM on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx

antonio lorusso — Mon, 10 May 2010 23:47:53 +0000

I have been using the dotdeb repository on karmic for a while, but today, when I installed the new Lucid Lynx, it just became a mess so I decided to keep all the original ubuntu packages (Lucid ships php 5.3.2) and find an alternative repo for php-fpm which I use on my dev machine.
Here it is:Brian’s php5-fpm : Brian Mercer

Happy 10.04!