TextMate Tip #2 (Blocks)

Working with Blocks in Ruby in Textmate.

Comments (5)

TextMate Screencasts for Rubyists says:

March 19, 2009 at 4:28 am

[...] TextMate Tip #2 (Blocks) [...]
George Anderson says:

March 19, 2009 at 5:05 am

The “block toggle” is new to me; very nice.

On a related note is ^: (control-shift-colon) for toggling a “word” between string and symbol.

Thanks.
Terry Schmidt says:

March 23, 2009 at 1:49 pm

One note on this, in order for the toggle to work when going from a {|x| …} block to the do … end block the code must be on a single line.

For example:

respond_to { |format| format.html … }

will toggle appropriately but

respond_to { |format|
format.html …
}

will not. I know, why would you do the short hand version on multiple lines but I have seen it done. Anyway, thanks for the tips. I have learned some new tricks already and I can’t wait to see what else you have to uncover.
Martinos says:

April 8, 2009 at 9:48 am

I am new on Mac and for me the “ctrl +{” freezes Textmate, takes up about one minute to execute. Does somebody have an idea ?
Martinos says:

April 8, 2009 at 10:30 am

I found the problem. In my bash_profile there was an access to a external resource which was taking time to execute. It seem that that code snippet uses an external script.