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Can you go into more detail about how you set everything up? This sounds immensely useful.

chime 15y ago
Editor: BBEdit. Cmd+B is hooked to the following AppleScript for my project: tell application "BBEdit" save front document end tell tell application "Terminal" if (count of windows) is 0 then do script "/path.to.my/make.command" else do script "/path.to.my/make.command" in window 1 end if end tell tell application "Google Chrome" activate end tell My make.command (simplified): #!/bin/sh coffee -c mycode.coffee lessc -x mycode.less > mycode.css rsync -avz --delete --force --exclude ".DS*" -e "ssh my.ppk" /localpath/www user@me.com:/remotepath/www On my server, I run a changed.php file: function fileHash($fn) { echo sprintf("%u.", crc32(file_get_contents(dirname(__FILE__) . $fn))); } header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *'); fileHash('mycode.js'); fileHash('mycode.css'); On all my HTML pages, I run this piece of CoffeeScript (compiled above to JS): # defined elsewhhere: # debugmode (bool) # reloadIfChangedLast (empty string) # getCurrentView() returns #pageHashURL reloadIfChanged = -> if not debugmode return false $.ajax type: 'GET' url: 'me.com/changed.php?rnd=' + Math.random() error: -> setTimeout reloadIfChanged, 500 return success: (data) -> if reloadIfChangedLast and data and reloadIfChangedLast isnt data reloadIfChangedLast = data document.location.href = 'index.html?rnd=' + Math.random() + '#' + getCurrentView() else if data reloadIfChangedLast = data setTimeout reloadIfChanged, 500 return return It may seem like a lot of hassle but for me it's just copy-paste and edit a few things per project. And the benefits are tremendous.
- GeneralMaximus 15y ago
  Brilliant. AppleScript is underrated as an automation language. Sure, it's a bit cumbersome to write, but nobody says you have to use it for everything. It plays well enough with shell scripts that you can leave the heavy lifting to another language and use AppleScript as a bridge between the command line and the UI. Me and a friend once wrote a bot in Python to control various music players from IRC. The bot uses AppleScript to talk to iTunes on OS X, and GObject introspection (or whatever they use on GNOME these days; I have little experience with desktop Linux) to talk to Rhythmbox. See http://github.com/GeneralMaximus/amazing-horse http://github.com/GeneralMaximus/amazing-horse All of Apple's official applications support scripting, so do most good third party apps. You don't need extra JS on your page to autorefresh Safari. This little snipped reloads the front-most Safari tab: tell application "Safari" set sameURL to URL of tab 1 of front window set URL of tab 1 of front window to sameURL end tell You can even send Safari a snippet of JS to run. It's possible to automate any UI interaction by sending mouse clicks or keyboard events to tell application "System Events". You can look at any app's AppleScript dictionary using the AppleScript Editor. Go File -> Open AppleScript Dictionary ... and then pick your app.
  - anthonyb 15y ago
    I do a similar thing in bash for more normal development - basically a script to run my unit tests, look for OK/Error in the output and print either a couple of bars in green or the error output in red. It runs over and over again in a separate monitor, so as soon as you have wrong code, you know about it.

chime 15y ago

Editor: BBEdit. Cmd+B is hooked to the following AppleScript for my project: tell application "BBEdit" save front document end tell tell application "Terminal" if (count of windows) is 0 then do script "/path.to.my/make.command" else do script "/path.to.my/make.command" in window 1 end if end tell tell application "Google Chrome" activate end tell My make.command (simplified): #!/bin/sh coffee -c mycode.coffee lessc -x mycode.less > mycode.css rsync -avz --delete --force --exclude ".DS*" -e "ssh my.ppk" /localpath/www user@me.com:/remotepath/www On my server, I run a changed.php file: function fileHash($fn) { echo sprintf("%u.", crc32(file_get_contents(dirname(__FILE__) . $fn))); } header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *'); fileHash('mycode.js'); fileHash('mycode.css'); On all my HTML pages, I run this piece of CoffeeScript (compiled above to JS): # defined elsewhhere: # debugmode (bool) # reloadIfChangedLast (empty string) # getCurrentView() returns #pageHashURL reloadIfChanged = -> if not debugmode return false $.ajax type: 'GET' url: 'me.com/changed.php?rnd=' + Math.random() error: -> setTimeout reloadIfChanged, 500 return success: (data) -> if reloadIfChangedLast and data and reloadIfChangedLast isnt data reloadIfChangedLast = data document.location.href = 'index.html?rnd=' + Math.random() + '#' + getCurrentView() else if data reloadIfChangedLast = data setTimeout reloadIfChanged, 500 return return It may seem like a lot of hassle but for me it's just copy-paste and edit a few things per project. And the benefits are tremendous.

GeneralMaximus 15y ago
Brilliant. AppleScript is underrated as an automation language. Sure, it's a bit cumbersome to write, but nobody says you have to use it for everything. It plays well enough with shell scripts that you can leave the heavy lifting to another language and use AppleScript as a bridge between the command line and the UI. Me and a friend once wrote a bot in Python to control various music players from IRC. The bot uses AppleScript to talk to iTunes on OS X, and GObject introspection (or whatever they use on GNOME these days; I have little experience with desktop Linux) to talk to Rhythmbox. See http://github.com/GeneralMaximus/amazing-horse http://github.com/GeneralMaximus/amazing-horse All of Apple's official applications support scripting, so do most good third party apps. You don't need extra JS on your page to autorefresh Safari. This little snipped reloads the front-most Safari tab: tell application "Safari" set sameURL to URL of tab 1 of front window set URL of tab 1 of front window to sameURL end tell You can even send Safari a snippet of JS to run. It's possible to automate any UI interaction by sending mouse clicks or keyboard events to tell application "System Events". You can look at any app's AppleScript dictionary using the AppleScript Editor. Go File -> Open AppleScript Dictionary ... and then pick your app.
- anthonyb 15y ago
  I do a similar thing in bash for more normal development - basically a script to run my unit tests, look for OK/Error in the output and print either a couple of bars in green or the error output in red. It runs over and over again in a separate monitor, so as soon as you have wrong code, you know about it.