Screencast Softwares for Mac OSX

Hi All,

I was working on doing some Proof of concept for Functional Testing using SOAP UI Pro. I have got the Proof of Concept ready, But I was not leaning towards another long meeting, where people get tired of listening. So I got an idea of creating some screencasts of what I did. So that it will help our QA guys get started soon. And, Also this was the first time, I was trying to do some screen cast, So I’m excited.

• Jing (Free Version – 5 Minutes videos only allowed -Allows you to create only SWF file (sigh) )
• Copernius (No Audio)
• ScreenCast-O-Matic (Yet to Try)

Since I use Mac OSX, the screen cast softwares that was available to me was  Jing and Copernicus.

I started using Jing and later realized, it allows me to create only 5 minutes videos in the free version of the software. I was not happy, But, I created small parts of the video, which might help viewers who have short attention spans. . And  also it allows me to create only swf videos (Sigh).

Copernicus was also something that I considered using, But, to my surprise it did not support Audio recordings. I was like, What the hell.

Anyways, For a first time novice, Jing solved me the problem of creating screen casts on Mac OSX. There was also another Software, that I did not have to time to check out. It was ScreenCast-O-Matic , its a Java based tool. I should try it, when I have time. May be then I can create some lengthy videos.

When I started searching. This link gave me the heads up on what I can look for .

Installing Ruby on Rails on Mac OS X 10.5

Hi All,
It’s time to learn a new language. I have learnt a lesson the hard way. On many occasions I have faced different problems and solved it. Few days later, I face the same problem. It strikes me at that moment, ” I have seen this ERROR”. or “I know how to do this”. But, I still have to do the research that I did a few days back. So I thought it’s better to document, what I do, so that I can have it as a reference for the future.

My problems aside… Let’s get to the point.

I wanted to learn ruby on rails. oof.. the moment I said this. There were people saying.. oh another Web framework. But, I have done my research and I’m gonna learn Ruby on Rails.
So let’s start.
Where to start?
Installation of Ruby on Mac OS X 10.5 :

You can install Ruby on Rails on Mac OS X using GEM . What is GEM?

Gem is a package manager for Ruby on Rails. In Short its like a exe or dmg for Ruby programming language. All the libraries and sources are installed properly by gem.

Mac comes with Gem installed ( Which I was unaware of, after some reading, I found that out). But, I faced a problem while trying to install ruby with gems.

I issued the following command to install rails.

gem install rails

I got an error stating,

ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteSourceException)
    HTTP Response 301 fetching http://gems.rubyforge.org/yaml

After doing some research online, I found that, may be my gems installation was out of date. So I decided to install gem.
I downloaded RubyGems1.3.7

1) Unzip the tar.

2) cd path/to/rubygems1.3.7

3) sudo ruby setup.rb

After installing the fresh copy of Ruby gems, I was able to install rails by issuing

sudo gem install rails

Rails ready to go.