On May 17, 2008, at 7:33 AM, Takaaki Kato wrote:

Is there anybody who can know a much better way? Or would you suggest any better workflow?

My suggestion doesn't really have anything to do with TextMate, but I strongly recommend that you look into GNU Screen. Here's a link that shows some basic usage:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Using_screen

Essentially, screen allows you to setup your own tabs in just one terminal window, and much, much more.

James Edward Gray II

I made a command to open Terminal in a new tab. The applescript is a bit of a hack since, as was mentioned, Terminal is not properly scriptable. The command works for me, though YMMV. Best, Mark

On May 17, 2008, at 1:33 PM, Takaaki Kato wrote:

Hi,

This is just a generic question on how you use Terminal and TextMate in developing with Rails. I benefit from the bundles like Ruby, Rails RubyAMP and RSpec. My problem is that I would like to have a few Terminal tabs open for one application. I need one tab for running commands like script/generate or rake tasks. (I know I can use Control-Shift-\ for some tasks, but it feels a bit slow to me.) Another tab is for the server log genarated after `script/server`. And optionally I have a tab open for script/console.

If I use Control-Shift-O, the Terminal window opens and `cd` to the current directory. RubyAMP bundle has Control-Command-P for a similar feature. But if I use the same command more than once, a new Terminal window shows up. I would like to have a new tab instead.

What I do currently is that: 1) Open the TextMate project file, 2) I use Control-Shift-O to open the Terminal window and find myself in the project directory, 3) run the AppleScript I made to duplicate a tab.

My AppleScript is written at <http://samuraicoder.net/applescript_duplicating_tabs_terminal

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. This is just a shitty script, simply emulates what I do on

keyboards. Is there anybody who can know a much better way? Or would you suggest any better workflow?

Takaaki

Takaaki Kato http://samuraicoder.net

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My AppleScript is written at <http://samuraicoder.net/applescript_duplicating_tabs_terminal

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. This is just a shitty script, simply emulates what I do on

keyboards. Is there anybody who can know a much better way?

Here's the applescript I use in the ActionScript 3 Bundle to compile with:

http://pastie.textmate.org/pastes/198815

Essentially it locates - or creates if it doesn't exist - a tab in the terminal and writes to it. I also have a command which fetches the contents of the terminal window and pretty-prints the output.

The one problem is that it's Leopard only, as before that the Terminal wasn't properly scriptable.

Cheers, Simon