Brian T. Cooke

I have an automator workflow that I’ve been using that others might find useful. It’s heavily based off of the web20show’s own script (original here). The biggest difference (if I remember right) is my flow takes the project directory as an argument vs. asking for it. It opens 3 iTerm tabs. 1 running ./script/server, 1 running autotest and 1 just sitting in your projects directory. localhost:3000 is then opened in your default browser (usually before the web server is ready) and TextMate is opened with the interesting directories loaded in (does not open ‘logs’ or ‘vendor’ or stuff like that).

For a long time I ran this as a Finder plugin. That required finding the project in Finder, right clicking on it and saying Automator -> RailsWork. Lately I’ve switched over to having the workflow be a .app and opening my project folder with that .app via QuickSilver.

I have a 48 second screencast of that in action. And of course, the workflow is available too: RailsWork.workflow.zip

update about requirements: The workflow uses TextMate, iTerm and requires TextMate be setup with its ‘mate’ command described here.