Control your terminal windows in iTerm with Ruby -- great for automation scripting!
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= iTermWindow <em>Developed March 17, 2008 by Chris Powers, Killswitch Collective http://killswitchcollective.com</em> The ItermWindow class models an iTerm terminal window and allows for full control via Ruby commands. Under the hood, this class is a wrapper of iTerm's Applescript scripting API. Methods are used to generate Applescript code which is run as an <tt>osascript</tt> command when the ItermWindow initialization block is closed. ItermWindow::Tab models a tab (session) in an iTerm terminal window and allows for it to be controlled by Ruby. These tabs can be created with either the ItermWindow#open_bookmark method or the ItermWindow#open_tab method. Each tab is given a name (symbol) by which it can be accessed later in the code using the ItermWindow's bracket method (ie window[:tab_name]). == EXAMPLE - Open a new iTerm window, cd to a project and open it in TextMate ItermWindow.open do |window| window.open_tab :my_tab do |tab| tab.write "cd ~/projects/my_project/trunk" tab.write "mate ./" end end == EXAMPLE - Use the current iTerm window, cd to a project and open in TextMate, launch the server and the console and title them ItermWindow.current do |window| window.open_tab :project_dir do |tab| tab.write "cd ~/projects/my_project/trunk" tab.write "mate ./" tab.title = "MyProject Dir" end window.open_tab :server do |tab| tab.write "cd ~/projects/my_project/trunk" tab.write "script/server -p 3005" tab.title = "MyProject Server" end window.open_tab :console do |tab| tab.write "cd ~/projects/my_project/trunk" tab.write "script/console" tab.title = "MyProject Console" end end == EXAMPLE - Same thing, but use bookmarks that were made for the server and console. Also, switch focus back to project dir. ItermWindow.current do |window| window.open_tab :project_dir do |tab| tab.write "cd ~/projects/my_project/trunk" tab.write "mate ./" end window.open_bookmark :server, 'MyProject Server' window.open_bookmark :console, 'MyProject Console' window[:project_dir].select == EXAMPLE - Arbitrarily open two tabs, switch between them and run methods/blocks with Tab#select method and Tab#write directly ItermWindow.open do |window| window.open_tab :first_tab window.open_tab :second_tab window[:first_tab].select do |tab| tab.write 'cd ~/projects' tab.write 'ls' end window[:second_tab].write "echo 'hello there!'" window[:first_tab].select # brings first tab back to focus end