[TxMt] [TextMate] Help With Ruby Command

[Jackie Chappell]

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 23:55:02 -0500 Kjell Olsen wrote:

> I can't make the date function work within the command - If I execute
> my script outside of textmate it works beautifully, but from within
> textmate I get:
>
> <code>
> date: illegal time format
> usage: date [-nu] [-r seconds] [+format]
>         date [[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]hh]mm[.ss]
> </code>

Timothy Martens' solution of using an external script which is then 
called with a command works well, or -- if you'd prefer to keep it all 
within TextMate, you could try something like:

ruby <<END
task_text = "$TM_SELECTED_TEXT"
task_text.gsub!("\[ \] ","[X] ")
print ""

from = File.basename("$TM_FILEPATH",".txt")
comp_time = Time.now
datestamp = comp_time.strftime("%d/%m/%Y at %H:%M")

File.open("/Users/me/completed.txt",'a'){|archive_file|
    archive_file.puts
    archive_file.puts "#{task_text} => in #{from} on #{datestamp}"
}
END

I ran into a similar problem, which I suspect in my case was down to 
escaping the quotes in the format string wrongly. The double quotes to 
form the Ruby string make this tricky. I decided to side-step the issue 
slightly long-windedly by using Ruby's 'date' methods. Note also that 
this code works on selected text: I have Standard in = selected text 
and Standard out = Replace selected text. The selected task then gets 
deleted from the original file and pasted in to the completed.txt file 
with a checkbox ([X]).

I also put the date stamp on the same line as the text to make it 
easier to grep for; when someone chases me about something I've done, I 
can double-check when I did it ;-)

I'm a Ruby-newbie too, so I'm sure more experienced coders could make 
it more efficient.

Jackie

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Jackie Chappell
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