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joan_psmithI'm testing playing around with Tracks on Rails (a GTD app) at the moment. So far I like it a lot.
After setting it up I thought, that it would be convenient if it started up automatically when I turn on my Mac.
There's a "better startup item for Mac OS X Tiger" linked on the official page, but it didn't work for me.
With the help of my brother I changed it so it does now work.
The old Not-Solution:
Changes
* we changed Line 8 from /usr/bin/ruby to /usr/bin/env
* we inserted Line 11
* we changed Line 12 from a relative to an absolute path
How to use it
* In the lines 12 and 23 change the path, so that it fits the path to your Tracks-folder.
* Save the whole thing as com.rousette.tracks.plist to ~/Library/LaunchAgents (if this directory doesn't exist make it).
* If you want to start Tracks manually to test it, use the following command in Terminal:
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.rousette.tracks.plist
EDIT 2009-03-27: It still doesn't work though (as I had to find out). *goes-back-to-fiddling-with-this*
EDIT 2009-03-28: Here's what finally worked for me:
Write a shell-script along these lines (where NAME is your username, and line 2 matches your path!). Save it as tracks.sh.
Open a terminal and do the following:
The important thing is, that your shellscript has the same name as the app and is executable!
Now you've got a neat little thing called "tracks" in your Applications folder, which you can doubleclick to start the server or put into you "Login Items".
After setting it up I thought, that it would be convenient if it started up automatically when I turn on my Mac.
There's a "better startup item for Mac OS X Tiger" linked on the official page, but it didn't work for me.
With the help of my brother I changed it so it does now work.
The old Not-Solution:
Changes
* we changed Line 8 from /usr/bin/ruby to /usr/bin/env
* we inserted Line 11
* we changed Line 12 from a relative to an absolute path
How to use it
* In the lines 12 and 23 change the path, so that it fits the path to your Tracks-folder.
* Save the whole thing as com.rousette.tracks.plist to ~/Library/LaunchAgents (if this directory doesn't exist make it).
* If you want to start Tracks manually to test it, use the following command in Terminal:
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.rousette.tracks.plist
EDIT 2009-03-27: It still doesn't work though (as I had to find out). *goes-back-to-fiddling-with-this*
EDIT 2009-03-28: Here's what finally worked for me:
Write a shell-script along these lines (where NAME is your username, and line 2 matches your path!). Save it as tracks.sh.
Open a terminal and do the following:
The important thing is, that your shellscript has the same name as the app and is executable!
Now you've got a neat little thing called "tracks" in your Applications folder, which you can doubleclick to start the server or put into you "Login Items".
