Samurai Coder

I found the Unix command cheat very useful. You can invoke text-based cheat sheets from Terminal.

The list of all the cheatsheets is available.

In developing with symfony, you delete the cache over and over. The symfony command for this is that:

symfony clear-cache

or

symfony cc

The second one is muct shorter, but we can make it far shorter by making an alias for the command.

1. Open your bash profile file. That would “~/.bash_login”, “~/.profile” or “~/.bash_profile”.
2. Add the following code: alias cc="symfony cc"
3. Close the terminal window and reopen. Now the command cc should work as “symfony cc”.

Update: All you need to do is open .. My biggest discovery today turned out to be failure. Thanks for your comments. I’m a jackass.

Every I use Terminal, moving around my system. I sometimes need a visual assistance to see what’s going on in directories. The following snippet runs a open command and open the current directory in Finder.

open -a Finder ./

I use this often, so I added an alias to my bash login file. You can do so, writing in the following in ~/.bash_login or ~/.profile

alias f="open -a Finder ./"

I assigned “f” for this command. You can use any as long as the system doesn’t use the name already.

dotfiles.org:

dotfiles.org is a place to upload, download, and share your dotfiles.

A community site for .bash_profile, .bashrc, .inputrc and .vimrc files.

I’ve been learning some tiny nifty codes in shared files.

Apple updated a Leopard web pages. Regarding Terminal,

The Terminal application in Leopard takes advantage of the operating system’s native text and graphics capabilities, using Input Manager and CoreText to fully support non-English languages. The updated layout engine provides very fast rendering of ASCII, ISO, and Unicode text, and a new user interface gives users around the world the ability to harness the power of UNIX. A simplified inspector and integrated settings pane make it easy to change the look and feel of Terminal.

The screenshot has tabs. Yey. Input Manager? We can’t find out the architecture of Input Manager in Leopard yet.

Also, on Ruby on Rails,

Leopard is also the premier platform for Ruby on Rails development, thanks to Rails, Mongrel, and Capistrano bundling.

Leopard comes with Ruby 1.8.6 and Python 2.5.