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April 30, 2007

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Developing in Rails with Coda

Posted Apr. 30, ’07, 1:27 PM PT by Pat Nakajima
Category | Software

If you read any of my initial posts about Coda, you know that I was thoroughly impressed with the app, I just didn’t really see myself using it, due to my unbreakable addiction to TextMate. So even after downloading Coda and wanting so hard to make it part of my work-flow, I ended up sticking with my old routine of TextMate, Terminal, and Firefox (with the Firebug extension for CSS tricksiness). I attempted to make my setup as Coda-like as possible, even going so far as installing a tabs plug-in for Terminal (a plug-in that I later found to wreak havoc on performance).

Last night, it finally occurred to me that the fact that Coda can’t replace 3 out of 3 of my development apps doesn’t mean that it can’t replace 2. So I’ve found myself using Coda’s excellent site management features, as well as its superb Terminal support. I’ve replaced Firefox with Coda’s preview mode, and have even been able to start reaping the benefits of Coda’s CSSEdit-esque stylesheet editor.

The best part about consolidating all of these apps is that it’s still easy as ever to do all of my code work in TextMate. As the resident web development geek here at MacUser, I must say that Coda is an investment worthy of anybody who spends more than 10 minutes a day creating stuff that will end up in those Internet tubes. If any of you have any experiences with Coda you’d like to share, please do so.


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