Hyper Development Mode!

Hyper development..maybe not, but it does save a few clicks. Here’s how I use Miva Merchant with MySQL for local development:

I use Instant Rails (Ruby, Rails, Apache, and MySQL all bundled together–there are similar suites for php). What’s nice about this, and the php versions, is the inclusion of phpmyadmin, so you get an environment very much like a web server.

I also use a batch file to fire everything up at once, launching myself into a hyper-productive development mode…in theory. Here’s the batch file:

@echo off
start /d “C:\Program Files\EditPlus 2\” editplus.exe
start /d “C:\MIVAMia\BIN\” Mia.exe
start /d “C:\InstantRails” InstantRails.exe
start /d “C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\” firefox.exe “http://vc3/merchant.mvc|http://127.0.0.1:8000/mysql/|http://vc3/admin.mvc?username=x&password=y”

That Firefox command opens three tabs–store, admin and phpmyadmin. There is an about:config setting you need to change in Firefox if you want those tabs to not overwrite your existing window. Don’t recall it offhand but it may resurface in my memory at some point.

Bret.