Get working quickly with a customised Rails project launcher
I just knocked up a quick Ruby script to automate some of the steps I always do when starting work on a Rails project, namely:
- open an iTerm tab running script/server
- open an iTerm tab running script/console
- open an iTerm tab running autotest
- open an iTerm tab running a shell window
- launch Safari on localhost:3000 for testing.
Customise this little script to suit your own needs. You'll need to install the rb-appscript gem to start with, and obviously this only applies to OS X users.
require 'rubygems' require 'appscript' RAILS_PROJECT_PATH = "~/path_to_your_rails_project" # Customise this def create_iterm_tab( command = "" ) @iterm ||= Appscript::app( 'iTerm' ) session = @iterm.current_terminal.sessions.end.make( :new => :session ) session.exec( :command => 'bash -l' ) session.write( :text => "cd #{RAILS_PROJECT_PATH}" ) session.write( :text => command ) unless command.nil? end def launch_browser( url = "http://localhost:3000") @safari ||= Appscript::app('Safari') @safari.open_location(url) end create_iterm_tab("./script/server") create_iterm_tab("./script/console") create_iterm_tab("autotest") create_iterm_tab() sleep(5) launch_browser()
The sleep(5) is in there to give time for the server to spin up before launching the browser.
Now put all this in a file called "launchproject.command" on the Desktop, and chmod +x it to allow it to allow it to execute when double-clicked.
I got some tips from Dribblings of a Deranged Hermit.
Happy New Year!