I’ve made some progress with Moola Tracker such that expenses and incomes can be added and a history of them is shown. I now want to display some graphs, which should be an easy task thanks to Gruff Graphs, but unfortunately installing RMagick on my Powerbook has been hell so far. I tried installing just the gem but it gave errors, I tried installing a package that had both ImageMagick and RMagick in it but that failed, I tried installing RMagick using MacPorts but that failed, and now I’m going through the instructions on RMagick’s page but I’m now getting these errors:

dyld: NSLinkModule() error
dyld: Symbol not found: _GetMultilineTypeMetrics
Referenced from: /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rmagick-1.15.5/./ext/RMagick/RMagick.bundle
Expected in: flat namespace

setup.rb: Too many examples failed. The RMagick documentation cannot be installed
successfully. Consult the README.txt file and try again, or send email
to rmagick@rubyforge.org.
post-setup.rb: PreserveAspectRatio.rb example returned error code 5
make: *** [all] Error 1

So now I’m dealing with that pickle of an error report. Here’s hoping I get it fixed soon, because I really want the pie charts in Moola Tracker. In the meantime, work isn’t halted on the project by any means; I’ll just comment out the require statements that are breaking. I need to add a lot of other functionality, including:

• Ability to search through expenses and incomes by date, amount, location, location type, and other characteristics;
• Ability to sort expenses and incomes;
• Pagination of expense and income listings;
• Ability to edit, delete, and modify expenses and incomes.

This is really the sort of blog entry I should be posting on Mumble Ramble, but nobody reads the blog over there. That’s actually a problem I’m having: what to do with Mumble Ramble. It was originally going to be home to all the Ruby on Rails projects I came up with, but it just doesn’t get enough love. I threw up some premade Mephisto layout and post in it very rarely (hence the lack of readers). The only project that gets any attention is Hegemony, though Todd does update his blog there on occasion. If I could figure out how to do Rails on Dreamhost, which is 3till7′s host, I’d be set. I could just move Hegemony over here and offer to host Todd here as well. If I were going to do such a thing, I would need to move Hegemony before too long because I only have a year with HostingRails and the mumbleramble.org domain name, and I would want to set up a redirect to the new location on 3till7 so that everyone would have a chance to change their links and find the new place. This means, I guess, that I need to take some time and learn how to deal with Rails on Dreamhost here. What was I posting about just yesterday? That I don’t have time to do all the stuff I want to do, haha.