# How do you auto-start your Rails Development Environment?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-do-you-auto-start-your-rails-development-environment/105826>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 3, 2007, 1:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-do-you-auto-start-your-rails-development-environment/105826 "2007-06-03T13:54:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/greg)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2007, 1:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-do-you-auto-start-your-rails-development-environment/105826/1 "2007-06-03T13:54:54Z")

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Hi,

I’m keen in understanding & seeing scripts (applescripts?) for how most  
RoR  
developers auto-start their environment? [Mac OS X]

Currently I’m:

- starting Locomotive
- using this to trigger iTerm sessions (as it sets up the rails paths  
for  
me)
- iTerm1: server
- iTerm2: tail -f log
- iTerm3: autotest (continuous integration - lite)
- iTerm4: general for Rails/Rake commands
- using Locomotive trigger startup of TextMate in my project area
- startup CocoMySql + open connection to database + choose my test  
database

Obviously I want to cut down / automate this so it all happens at once.

Any suggestions / applescript examples etc would be great. Questions  
that  
come to mind for me:  
Q1 - Dropping use of Locomotive - I need to research/find out how to  
launch  
iTerm sessions and set-up required Rails/Ruby environment variables  
myself  
so I don’t become reliant on Locomotive. Perhaps I will need to  
install a  
non-Locomotive version of Rails as a starter?  
Q2 - Learn how to applescript starting up multiple iTerm sessions? Any  
code  
examples available from people?  
Q3 - Starting up Textmate via applescript (hopefully should be able to  
work  
this on out quickly)  
Q4 - Starting up CocoMySql via applescript (hopefully should be able to  
work  
this on out quickly)

Thanks in advance  
Greg