I have long been a big fan of Textmate, but about 6 months ago I decided to take Coda for a spin.

Coda is great, I just love the feel of Textmate more. It was tough though giving up the integrated publishing option that is included in Coda. I know you can send using Transmit and docklets but I wanted something that synched.

If anyone else has been looking for similar functionality here’s how I did it.

Firstly, you need to download and install lftp. This great utility can be found here. It comes as a source tarball and installing requires that you first have pkg-config installed which requires a bunch of other dependencies. I ended up just using macports to get all this stuff installed with:

sudo port install lftp

Once lftp is installed it’s time to write a script to use this in the bundle editor. I decided that I would create a project.xml in the root of the project directory that had all the relevant information.

Here was my first attempt:

    <project>
        <title>For Future Purposes</title>
        <server>
            <location>sftp://username:password@mydomain.com</location>
            <path>/var/www/html/test_proj</path>
        </server>
        <exclude>
            <file>project.xml</file>
            <file>dont-synch</file>
            <file>synchthisdir/dont synch this file</file>
        </exclude>
    </project>

From there I simply wrote a little python script that gets called from the bundle editor in textmate.

    #!/usr/bin/python

    import os
    from xml.etree.ElementTree import ElementTree

    os.system('cd %s' % os.environ['TM_PROJECT_DIRECTORY'])

    tree = ElementTree()
    tree.parse('project.xml')
    host = tree.find('./server/location').text
    path = tree.find('./server/path').text

    excludes = tree.findall('./exclude/file')
    exclude = ""
    for item in excludes:
        exclude = exclude + "--exclude-glob \'%s\' " % item.text

    command = 'lftp -c "open %s;cd %s;mirror --reverse %s"' % (host,path,exclude)

    #print command

    os.system(command)