using textmate on remote server
April 19th, 2007
so i finally got around to setting up textmate to edit files on my hostingrails account. to my surprise it didnt require me to think to hard. basically you need to download 2 things, they are macFUSE and sshfs utility. they can be downloaded at http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/downloads/list. basically from my understanding, these programs enable you to mount your remote server account. kind of like having access to another computers shared folder on your windows desktop. i guess the macfuse enables the folder sharing, and the sshfs enables the secure connection?
well after you get the two installed, all you need to do is start the sshfs program and connect to your account. after filling out the username/password/ip address, your account folder will get placed on your desktop and wala, you can now treat this folder as a local folder and use textmate to start developing.