Ways to speed up TextMate on large rails projects?

Question

Is there any way to improve the performance of TextMate when a large project is open? Making it the active app is taking about 10 second each and every time.

Answer 1

What are you hardware specs? Sounds like a RAM issue to me.

Have you considered using a different application? I have been using RubyMine for some time now and have to say I really enjoy it.

My application is rather large (60ish objects, 20 some plugins, etc...) and with "OK" laptop specs, it runs pretty well. That, and all of the other functionality that it provides makes it well worth the $79 license.

Answer 2

To speedup opening the project (and also searching in it), you may consider to only include into the project the files you're actually working at. All the external libraries that may eventually be in the source tree (or sym-linked into that), which you don't plan to modify, may be excluded from the project by putting their folder names into the "Folder Pattern" regular expression in the "Folder Information" form, which can be opened by selecting the top-folder in the TextMate and pressing Cmd+I.

Note, that after doing that, you should do File -> Save Project, and then only open your project in TextMate by actually opening the .tmproject-file:

open myproject.tmproject

not by opening the whole folder in TextMate like this:

mate .

P.S.: Using sym-links for linking external libraries into your source tree is by itself a handy technique, as those may be separate TextMate projects to work on.

Answer 3

Every time you switch to TextMate, it stats all of the files in your project. You can inhibit this behavior (selectively on a per-project or per-domain basis) with the ReMate plugin.

ReMate