Open view partials from a live rails site into your favorite text editor.

Only TextMate is supported right now with the uri (txmt://) on a Mac . (Pull requests welcome for getting your favorite editor configured)

A project spans across many developers across many months. Some developers use their own convention for partials and some times partials, or even sometimes its your code you wrote couple of months back. Its painfully slow to jump through files and you might not want to dig deep for the right partial doing the job of displaying the information.

• Make sure this gem is not included in the environment where you are exposing the site to public since this would reveal the filenames which you are using.
• I am not responsible when using of this gem causes any kind of loss or exposing filenames from within the project.

• Include gem 'view-finder', group: :development, git: 'https://github.com/sairam/view_finder.git' in Gemfile to only allow this gem in development mode (see the DISCLAIMER on why I stress about only using it in development mode)
• Run bundle install to pull the gem.

• Include view_finder in application.js (When asset pipeline is enabled)

• Run rails g view_finder g:install to copy from the static javascripts to public/ directory

• Open the javascript console and type in window.openFileMode=true and click on any element and it opens the partial file in textmate.
• To stop the opening files type in window.openFileMode=false

• Rails 3+ (with asset pipeline enabled)
• Tested with Chrome

• Run rails g view_finder g:install to copy from the static javascripts to public/ directory