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Quicklook any plain-text file e.g. HAML or ERB

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

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