# From Eclipse to Textmate **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [February 17, 2007, 4:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/from-eclipse-to-textmate/85915 "2007-02-17T16:49:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gkogler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/ba9def/32.png) [@gkogler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gkogler)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2007, 4:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/from-eclipse-to-textmate/85915/1 "2007-02-17T16:49:24Z")
A month ago I bought a Macbook Pro (my first Apple) and I’m really very happy with it. I am used to Eclipse and RADRails for Rails Development under Windows and Linux. I bought the famous Textmate and while I like the lightweight feel of it, I miss some features from Eclipse like seamless subversion integration and such. What tools do you Mac people use besides Textmate? Best regards Gernot ---
**Author:** ![gkogler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/ba9def/32.png) [@gkogler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gkogler)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2007, 5:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/from-eclipse-to-textmate/85915/2 "2007-02-17T17:33:48Z")
Gernot K. wrote: > A month ago I bought a Macbook Pro (my first Apple) and I’m really very > happy with it. I am used to Eclipse and RADRails for Rails Development > under Windows and Linux. I bought the famous Textmate and while I like > the lightweight feel of it, I miss some features from Eclipse like > seamless subversion integration and such. What tools do you Mac people > use besides Textmate? Our cycle with svn rarely strays out of this envelop: svn up # what did you do? svn diff # what did we do? svn revert path/file # we should not have done it! rake ci m=‘what we did’ ci is a rake task that runs all our tests, and calls `svn ci -m "#{ENV['m']}"` Frankly, there’s almost nothing to integrate there. We don’t do the pathetic Visual Studio Classic thing were you have to click on each file to check it out. And we certainly never check in just one file at a time without a test run to back it up. The goal is that each ci is a coherent integration of one tested version of the code. Always develop with a command line open - preferrably bash - and enter those command lines there. They are much more flexible and user-friendly than a clicker inside an editor. That leads to mouse abuse! – Phlip [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ZeekLand](http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ZeekLand) ← NOT a blog!! ---
**Author:** ![gkogler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/ba9def/32.png) [@gkogler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gkogler)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2007, 6:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/from-eclipse-to-textmate/85915/3 "2007-02-17T18:31:55Z")
On Feb 17, 4:49 pm, Gernot K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > What tools do you Mac people use besides Textmate? Nothing else than Eclipse with radrailss ---
**Author:** ![gkogler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/ba9def/32.png) [@gkogler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gkogler)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2007, 5:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/from-eclipse-to-textmate/85915/4 "2007-02-17T17:56:05Z")
I’m not afraid of the command line at all, but I liked for example the sbuversion state icons in subclipse. And I don’t think that Visual Studio is that bad. I do some serious development there (for a living), although I like Ruby/Rails much more. Sounds a little religious, Philip. – Gernot ---
**Author:** ![gkogler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/ba9def/32.png) [@gkogler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gkogler)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2007, 9:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/from-eclipse-to-textmate/85915/5 "2007-02-17T21:04:14Z")
BBEdit ([barebones.com](http://barebones.com)) has very solid svn integration as well as ruby & rails support. Check it out! On Feb 17, 9:49 am, Gernot K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![gkogler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/ba9def/32.png) [@gkogler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/gkogler)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2007, 5:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/from-eclipse-to-textmate/85915/6 "2007-02-17T17:43:50Z")
TextMate has a bit of Subversion integration out of the box. No, it’s not as nice as what Eclipse offers… synchronizing, visual diff, etc… however, I agree with Philip, having a good grasp of command line svn will eventually save ye arse at some point. Check out this link for more info about TextMate bundles: [Bundles — TextMate Manual](http://macromates.com/textmate/manual/bundles) – James M.