Ruby Findings

I’m trying to make more and better use out of TextMate for my rails development and have been bitching about having to find the code a rails backtrace points to when my apps blow up. Enter the footnotes plugin. This plugin will give you some links in the footer of your page that allow you to go directly to the controller, view, layout, stylesheets, javascripts, etc in TextMate. It also hyperlinks your rails backtraces so you can go direct to the line of code that’s erroring out.

Note the underlined lines in this backtrace - those are hyperlinks.

To install the plugin just run this command from your RAILS_ROOT.

script/plugin install http://macromates.com/svn/Bundles/trunk/Bundles/Ruby%20on%20Rails.tmbundle/Support/plugins/footnotes