Marcus Spiegel

The main problem to compile Sphinx on an OS X box is to find the appropriate libraries for MySQL. Fortunately MAMP may serve these in /Applications/MAMP/Library if prepared. This is a brief copy & paste howto.

Payone is a german payment system with several product options and clearings. This Component started by implementing the Payone API just from scratch using curl. Thus it doesn’t feature the whole API yet. You should be able to process checkouts on creditcards for both the “Shop” and “Access” based solutions.

People probably know about memcached (http://memcached.org/) and its high performance name-value based memory object cache interface. Its main purpose is to provide an easy to use distributed caching engine in a multinode environment. Have you ever wanted to let memcached handle replication?

As of CakePHP 1.2 Behaviours came up and people started working with the “Containable” (see http://book.cakephp.org/view/474/Containable). In brief you get much better control over associations and selects on theses in find operations. But when associations grow up in your datamodel things might get overhauling. You’ll have to keep exiting associations while adding contains to your query. This can be simplified by adding an addContain()-Method to your models.

You have a running MAMP Workflow on Mac. You are familiar with using Apache, MySQL etc. together. You now just want to try some more… Let’s say Ruby-on-Rails, ok RoR with MySQL and especially with MySQL provided by MAMP. As gem needs header and library of your MySQL-Server things might feel some kind of “boring old compiling stuff” – but it’s easy:

Well after trying some tipps and howtos I finally found the right resource out there http://boonedocks.net/mike/archives/175-MAMP-and-the-Ruby-MySQL-Gem.html Thanks a lot Mike!