Dr Nic's TextMate theme for RadRails

TextMate theme for RadRails

UPDATE: Screen shot of Textmate theme for Radrails now available.

UPDATE: Vista ClearType fonts available now. I’ve also added instructions for changing fonts in RadRails if you cannot install Consolas, below.

RadRails comes with one theme: white background, black foreground. A few nice shades of markup. Lovely.

Want a little more excitement? Perhaps you want to feel like your using TextMate, even though it costs 30€ and won’t run on your machine anyway?

What you need is the TextMate-theme for RadRails. My friend Brett devised this and gave it to me during Railsconf. Understand this with me – he drove 15 hours from southern USA to Chicago. I flew 20 hours from Amsterdam. Just so I could get this theme and now share it with you.

That’s one prized theme right there, all y’alls. (A Texan taught me that once).

Download it, unzip it, and store it anywhere you like. Don’t like free choice? Then save it in the RadRails/Themes.

If my memory serves me well:

Go to File > Import…
Under General, select Preferences, and click Next.
Browse to the epf file.
Select the Import All checkbox and press Finish.

You are now one sexy Ruby/Rails developer. Yes, you.

UPDATE: The theme will look for the Consolas font – one of the new Windows Vista fonts that you can download after a bit of Googling – its the replacement for Courier New.

UPDATE: If you cannot install Consolas on your system, you will need to select an alternate fixed width font, such as Courier. To do this:

Go to Window >> Preferences…
Go to General >> Appearance >> Colors and Fonts
Select Basic >> Text Font
Click Change…
Select your replacement fixed width font, and press Ok.

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sidewinder128 says:

June 20, 2007 at 8:20 am

Anyway why bother with a stupid theme text colors. The important is to code good solutions not to see how beautiful my text editor looks LMAO. Actually that color theme remember me the times of Turbo C on DOS ROFLAO.

Jacques says:

June 25, 2007 at 9:03 pm

Be forewarned that rolling back to your previous default color theme is a bitch.

burlight says:

June 30, 2007 at 2:22 am

oh, god this is cool! Thanks a lot!

EatenByGrues says:

July 9, 2007 at 8:06 pm

It looks great for Ruby, but rhtml and sql are pretty much unreadable with this theme.

Anton says:

July 9, 2007 at 10:40 pm

Looks like with the recent update to radrails plugin, ERB and RHTML no longer work well with this package. I am having trouble figuring out how to change the foreground color in rhtml

July 9, 2007 at 10:46 pm

aha, to change color of regular html text in RHTML file, you need to change the color of “text” in the HTML editor color settings.
Weird

Kamil says:

September 29, 2007 at 5:23 pm

Anton, Thank you so much for finding this! I’ve almost gone blind because of having black on black rhtml THANKS!

Rich says:

October 19, 2007 at 3:15 am

Anyone know how to fix the unreadable red “tabs”?

rucy says:

October 28, 2007 at 4:34 pm

How To go back to the defaults, not change workspace…
Please…

xain says:

November 1, 2007 at 11:29 am

Some asked a way to remove the effect. May be the author should ask readers backup the preference first before change it. To backup, Will exporting the preference work?

November 1, 2007 at 11:36 am

To fix the tab color:
Preferences/General/Appearance/Colors and Fonts
under
View and Editor Folders
you will find “Active part background begin” and “Active part background end”, set these two to white color.

Bert says:

December 5, 2007 at 11:06 pm

Thanks for the great look!!!

limeyd says:

January 8, 2008 at 10:36 pm

Stop trying to be something you’re not either go buy a mac and textmate or deal with the radrails theme.

January 8, 2008 at 10:39 pm

p.s. I love your tagline but really rails makes magic and us rails developers just put the show on the stage.

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vijay says:

July 3, 2008 at 3:41 pm

This doesn’t work with the New Aptana RadRails 1.0 release.
Go to
http://forums.aptana.com/viewtopic.php?t=2214&highlight=theme+textmate
to find one compatible with that

Dzsó says:

July 4, 2008 at 5:44 pm

Really Thanks!!!

joe says:

July 14, 2008 at 1:58 am

This is a really great them. However, it seems to have changed the color scheme for Java development as well. I’m using eclipse 3.4. Any thoughts on how to get my original java code color them back?

Mark says:

October 16, 2008 at 7:17 am

It seems that this didn’t change the background of the actual editor, just the background of the text. Any ideas how I can get the editor bg to be black also? I’m on XP not Vista.