[TxMt] Re: Help getting Started...

[Tim Diggins]

Hi Matt -

as a guess, maybe it's that TextMate doesn't recognize "Gemfile" as being a
ruby file. If you can see the pulldown in the middle of the bottom of the
window (that probably says "Plain text" at present - see
http://img.skitch.com/20101004-gtppj71tusqqyej42pkhtncupr.png) - you can use
that to tell TextMate that the current document should be parsed and
displayed as a Ruby file. (and try again with a file ending .rb to see it
working correctly)

Tim

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Matthew Murphy <
Matthew.Murphy at condenast.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Apologies if this isn't the right place to post this questions!
>
> I have recently installed textmate on the advice of 'Ruby on Rails Tutorial
> Learn Rails by Example' : http://railstutorial.org/chapters/beginning#top
>
> I am up to the part where you open a file for the first time using Textmate
> with: mate Gemfile
>
> This works and opens up the relevant file but all of the code is black -
> there is no differentiation between comments, variables etc it is just a
> page of plain text.
>
> I have tried changing the themes but that simply changes the background
> colour vs the text colour but doesn't help distinguish between the different
> code elements.
>
> In the tutorial everything is highlighted as per a proper code editor but I
> just cannot find how to do this - please help!!
>
> I am sure it is something incredibly simple that I am not doing but I've
> watched some tutorials and searched through the help and on Google but still
> no luck.
>
> Any help will be very much appreciated!!
>
> Thanks
>
> Matt
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