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Getting delays while working in TextMate from the beach ball of death?

If you only add files and directories that you work on in a project, this is greatly minimized. Also make sure that you don’t have the log directory in your textmate project. TextMate scans the filesystem for changes, and the log directory is always doing that (slowing things down).

If you are using an existing project (or not), create a new one then:

Go to your rails path in finder and open TextMate and choose File -> New Project

Drag over only the directories that you will need to edit. Avoid log and tmp, since there is nothing to edit there. You may want to avoid public if there are no html files in it that need editing (sometimes it contains a lot of images).

Save the project using “Save As” Overwrite the original if necessary.. Save doesn’t pick these changes up for some reason.

This should reduce the size of the project and make that alt+tab magic nice and speedy.