# Textmate tips and shortcuts **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [August 16, 2008, 8:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/textmate-tips-and-shortcuts/146028 "2008-08-16T08:49:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![timhunter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/71e660/32.png) [@timhunter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/timhunter)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 8:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/textmate-tips-and-shortcuts/146028/1 "2008-08-16T08:49:00Z")
Wow, 111111 messages in rails-talk. (111112 now) I’ve recently purchased my first mac, and of course textmate. I think I’m about to switch to textmate full time from Netbeans. I’m finding I’m behind the 8 ball with keyboard shortcuts and general knowledge of the ide tho. Does anyone know of any good tutorials on using textmate for rails dev, with rspec and guthub? I have the rspec bundle installed, and discovered the “des”-tab combo to fill out the describe block skeleton, that’s nice. Keen to hear about your favourite tips, tut’s, or screencasts… Cheers, Tim. ---
**Author:** ![timhunter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/71e660/32.png) [@timhunter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/timhunter)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 10:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/textmate-tips-and-shortcuts/146028/2 "2008-08-16T10:38:58Z")
I think peepcode has a screencast out on textmate shortcuts. ---
**Author:** ![timhunter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/71e660/32.png) [@timhunter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/timhunter)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 1:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/textmate-tips-and-shortcuts/146028/3 "2008-08-16T13:13:29Z")
[http://peepcode.com/products/textmate-for-rails-2](http://peepcode.com/products/textmate-for-rails-2) is worth looking at - it’s got a lot of general tips as well as the specifics for the Rails2 bundle (which you can pick up on Github if you don’t have it already). [Getting into TextMate](http://blog.macromates.com/2007/getting-into-textmate/) will point you at some other general resources. [A Fresh Cup](http://afreshcup.com/?tag=textmate) will get you pointers to some other random TextMate stuff I’ve thought worth bookmarking along the way. Mike G. > **[A Fresh Cup](https://afreshcup.com)** > > Mike Gunderloy's daily list of software development links. Centered on Rails, but covers everything a web developer might be interested in. ---
**Author:** ![timhunter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/71e660/32.png) [@timhunter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/timhunter)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 3:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/textmate-tips-and-shortcuts/146028/4 "2008-08-16T15:00:05Z")
Thanks Ryan and Mike. It looks like the peepcode screencast might be my second purchase from Mr Topfunky. I found the Rails bundle has a built in ‘walkthough’ to create a blog app. Seems to be a good way to pick up a few shortcuts quickly, but most of the view (erb) one’s aren’t working for me though… Tim. ---
**Author:** ![timhunter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/71e660/32.png) [@timhunter](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/timhunter)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2008, 6:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/textmate-tips-and-shortcuts/146028/5 "2008-08-16T18:20:21Z")
Tim H. wrote: > Thanks Ryan and Mike. It looks like the peepcode screencast might be > my second purchase from Mr Topfunky. > > I found the Rails bundle has a built in ‘walkthough’ to create a blog > app. Seems to be a good way to pick up a few shortcuts quickly, but > most of the view (erb) one’s aren’t working for me though… > > Tim. Something else you might do (if you haven’t already) is just browse through the bundles and see what menu options are available. Most (if not all) have keyboard shortcuts. That’s how I discovered a number of the one’s I use. Peace, Phillip