TextMate Footnotes
I read Glenn Vanderburg’s blog quite a bit and came upon this post awhile back talking about TextMate Footnotes, a tool that has boosted his productivity quite a bit. I’ve found some use for it as well. Granted, it won’t pop up a debug window for you in your VisualWorks image but, we can’t have everything we want.
Why write about it again when several others have? Well, I receive such a large amount of traffic to my blog that I consider it my duty to share handy tools with others that may never read Glenn’s (and others’) blogs……OK, I admit it, no one reads this blog and I’m just using this post as a place to easily find the links to the plugin when I’ve forgotten where they are months from now. The Rails Wiki describes how to install the plugin here.
And now a large link for me when I’m later scanning this post to find it.
If you’re still reading, TextMate Footnotes, once installed as a plugin in your Rails project will add handy links to the bottom of each of your pages (after a server restart of course).
The Edit links will take you directly to your open TextMate app to the controller, view, layout, etc. file. It saves you from having to figure out where you’re at and then navigating there yourself. Granted this was no great chore in TextMate and Rails anyway but that 10 seconds you spent doing it each time adds up. The Show links will insert various data in-page, like a dump of the session, cookies, etc.
Even handier are the additions to the Rails development error page. Now each item in the stack trace is a link to that file and line.
Definitely a time saver!
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