<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On May 8, 2006, at 11:03 AM, Jonathan Barrett wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Cool - I guess the usefulness for me is limited as:</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">(a) All my projects are version controlled web apps</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">(b) they all live in ~/Work/$appname/trunk</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">(c) They're all rails or rails-y in directory structure</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">(d) I tend use subversion to manage the state of my projects, so don't need tabs to stay open</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">(e) I worry about leaving ._DS_Store files everywhere, so tend to stay out of the Finder</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">None of this means "project files are crap", of course, but any time I see a feature I'm not using, I get excited that maybe it could be useful :)</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Anyone using project files in a similar environment?</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I'm working on a couple of Rails apps.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I have two project files for each project</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>A front end project file</DIV><DIV>and a main project file</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I keep all the configuration stuff and other random stuff out of the front end project file.</DIV><DIV>That way I get </DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>blazing fast project wide search</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>faster TODO bundle stuff</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>easier management of the subversion stuff</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I have a few configuration files and testing files and other random stuff that is unique to each developers machine and environment. Including a bunch of testing files and stuff.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Keeping all that stuff out of the front end project file keeps my svn status log nice and clean and my tree is segregated to only the stuff i'm working on.</DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">thomas Aylott—</SPAN></SPAN></FONT><B style="font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">subtleGradient—</SPAN></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;; font-size: 9px; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><A href="mailto:oblivious@subtleGradient.com">oblivious@subtleGradient.com</A></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>