# Textmate command to display Active Record object attributes

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/textmate-command-to-display-active-record-object-attributes/98535>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 15, 2006, 6:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/textmate-command-to-display-active-record-object-attributes/98535 "2006-07-15T18:03:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![crenner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@crenner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/crenner)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2006, 6:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/textmate-command-to-display-active-record-object-attributes/98535/1 "2006-07-15T18:03:24Z")

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I hacked together a command for textmate that displays Active Record  
object attributes in a tooltip. Just thought others might find it  
useful.

Chris

[1]  
[http://blog.seagul.co.uk/articles/2006/07/14/textmate-command-to-display-active-record-column-attributes](http://blog.seagul.co.uk/articles/2006/07/14/textmate-command-to-display-active-record-column-attributes)

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**Author:** ![crenner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@crenner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/crenner)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2006, 8:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/textmate-command-to-display-active-record-object-attributes/98535/2 "2006-07-15T20:53:33Z")

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Great, works fine!

Le 15 juil. 06 à 18:03, Chris R. a écrit :

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**Author:** ![crenner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@crenner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/crenner)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2006, 9:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/textmate-command-to-display-active-record-object-attributes/98535/3 "2006-07-15T21:38:14Z")

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On Jul 15, 2006, at 9:03 AM, Chris R. wrote:

> removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid  
> [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails)

Very cool!

Thanks  
-Ezra

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**Author:** ![crenner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@crenner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/crenner)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2006, 7:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/textmate-command-to-display-active-record-object-attributes/98535/4 "2006-07-16T07:07:01Z")

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thanks, this will be helpful.

Gokhan

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**Author:** ![crenner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@crenner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/crenner)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2006, 4:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/textmate-command-to-display-active-record-object-attributes/98535/5 "2006-07-16T16:08:57Z")

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Chris R. wrote:

> I hacked together a command for textmate that displays Active Record  
> object attributes in a tooltip. Just thought others might find it  
> useful.

Thanks! It worked great after I remembered to change the hashbang  
line:-)

–Al Evans

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**Author:** ![crenner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@crenner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/crenner)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2006, 6:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/textmate-command-to-display-active-record-object-attributes/98535/6 "2006-07-16T18:44:27Z")

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On 7/15/06, Chris R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> I hacked together a command for textmate that displays Active Record  
> object attributes in a tooltip. Just thought others might find it  
> useful.
> 
> Chris
> 
> [1] [http://blog.seagul.co.uk/articles/2006/07/14/textmate-command-to-display-active-record-column-attributes](http://blog.seagul.co.uk/articles/2006/07/14/textmate-command-to-display-active-record-column-attributes)

This is awesome. I can stop typing \d foo in my psql console now.

– James