12 Profile Shortcuts I can’t live without

imarichardson — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:59:51 +0000

If you’re a developer on a Mac or Linux box, building in Rails using Capistrano like me you can get really tired of having to “cd” to a 25 character long directory path 10 times a day while running all your script/”whatevers” while you work. Well, here’s my list of 12 shortcuts I can’t live without.

If you’re on a Mac, you’ll need to edit your “/etc/profile” page and then type these in, so something like “$textedit /etc/profile” or “$ mate /etc/profile” (if you are using TextMate) from your Terminal window will open your system profile.

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# /directories
alias gotoMyDir="cd /Some/Path/To/A/Frequently/Accessed_Directory"

# Rails
#The next shortcut only opens up the rails directories I care about using TextMate
alias matedir="mate app config lib db public test vendor/plugins &"
alias ss="./script/server"
alias sc="./script/console"
alias sg="./script/generate"
alias sp="./script/plugin"

#Rails Capistrano ... yes, I am using Capistrano 1.4.1 instead of 2.x
alias capd="cap _1.4.1_ deploy"
alias capdm="cap _1.4.1_ deploy_with_migrations"
alias capapache="cap _1.4.1_ restart_apache"
alias caprestart="cap _1.4.1_ restart_mongrel_cluster"
alias capstart="cap _1.4.1_ start_mongrel_cluster"
alias capstop="cap _1.4.1_ stop_mongrel_cluster"

Now what’s nice is that f I want to visit “my directory”, while in the terminal I just type”$ gotoMyDir”; if I need to run a capistrano “deploy_with_migrations” script (yes, I’m using 1.4.1 until a few more 2.0 updates finalize) I just type in “$ capdm” … you get the picture.

Nice indeed, and saves the keys!

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12 Profile Shortcuts I can’t live without