[TxMt] To whom would I submit an addition to the Rails bundle?

Sami Samhuri sjs at uvic.ca
Mon Feb 20 16:39:18 UTC 2006


On 20-Feb-06, at 2:49 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:

> On 19/2/2006, at 9:12, Sami Samhuri wrote:
>
>> [...] I'm curious about bundle development as well. I've been  
>> creating various snippets and macros for Rails and would like to  
>> share them. I started out with the bundle on the rails wiki, but  
>> that is old. If there's not a central place for this, we should  
>> start one.
>
> TextMate should come with an updated Rails bundle.
>
> As for a central location for bundles, there is the svn repository:  
> http://anon:anon@macromates.com/svn/Bundles/trunk/Bundles/
>
> However, I’d rather not have the bundles turn into a repository of  
> hundreds of snippets, macros, commands, and similiar contributed by  
> a dozen different people [1].

That's good to hear. :) I'll try to go through what's in svn this  
week and make sure it's all up to date.

> Snippets should be trivial to create, so the default bundles should  
> just have some near universal useful stuff, and “show the way”. The  
> more default items a bundle ships with, the harder it likely is for  
> the user to learn to use it, and the less inclined the user likely  
> is to start expand the bundle with the stuff he would find useful  
> (using the coding style, tab triggers, and similar, that he finds  
> to be in his taste).

Clever thinking. I don't know if I would have thought of that.

> The wiki [2] however is free for anyone to edit.
>
> That said, please do keep sending useful stuff to this list (or  
> links to blog posts about it)!

Will do! Thanks.

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Sami Samhuri
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