On 4 Aug 2013, at 10:28, Brian Powell wrote:
I have been using rmate via an ssh tunnel with a several of my clusters since the 2.0 alpha first appeared; however, since updating to alpha.9459, rmate reports: […]
Can you try, on your Mac, to run:
telnet localhost 52698
That should indicate if TextMate is listening. If this works, then try the same on your server to check the tunnel is working.