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I’m often jumping from file to file in Rails, so I really wanted Quicklook support for my template files.  Unfortunately, the suggestions I found online were confusing and incomplete.

Here’s a really easy way to get it done – but no syntax highlighting

1. Show the contents of TextEdit’s package

2. Open Info.plist in a text editor… like TextEdit, perhaps… hmm…

3. Anyway, add the following snippet (find the code on github):

Put it just before the following section:

4. Customize

• UTTypeDescription - put in description of your choice (although you probably don’t need to)
• UTTypeIdentifier – apparently (and this is what was missing from other descriptions), you just make something up here
• public.filename-extension – add as many extensions as you want to map to this file type

5. Gloat

Formtastic is an awesome gem to make form creation easy and fun. Rails built-in autocompletion feature is also easy to use and a great service to users. However, they don’t play well together out of the box…

As you can see, the popup auto-complete menu and controls that follow are all jumbled up.  Luckily, the fix is very simple (after spending hours yelling at the computer, lol).  In formtastic_changes.css, add the following (get from github):

And everything’s right as rain…