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Michael Lee
Michael Lee

Reputation: 458

Cloud9 IDE - Terminal shortcut to start rails server

i'm new to development in general and I'm starting with rails. I learned via the Hartl Rails Tutorial (and a few other resources) and am using cloud9 IDE. I noticed that every time I want to launch the server in C9 i need to type the following: 

rails s -b $IP -p $PORT

Is there a shortcut, hotkey, alias etc so I can simply type something like "rails s"? Seems unnecessarily annoying to have to type that whole thing out every single time.

Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 884

Answers (3)

ClaudiuC_MSFT
ClaudiuC_MSFT

Reputation: 156

Don't forget to restart your C9 IDE. Otherwise the .bash_aliases nor .bashrc won't be recognized as updated.

Upvotes: 1

Brady Dowling
Brady Dowling

Reputation: 5532

To do this, you'll need to set a bash alias. To launch it with "launchRails" you'd add a line like this to your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_aliases files (either one will work):

alias railsAlias="rails s -b $IP -p $PORT"

You can open up those files with c9 ~/.bashrc.

For a multi-word alias like "rails command", you might consider a solution like this one.

Source: How and where to set bash alias

Upvotes: 2

Eliot Sykes
Eliot Sykes

Reputation: 10073

To use railss as an alias, run this in the Cloud9 terminal:

echo -e "\nalias railss='rails server -b \$IP -p \$PORT'" >> ~/.bash_aliases

This will append the railss alias to the end of the provided ~/.bash_aliases file.

Open a new Terminal tab on Cloud9 and the railss alias should work in the new Terminal tab. From now on you can use railss instead of rails s -b $IP -p $PORT.

At time of writing ~/.bash_aliases is provided on Cloud9 by default. If you don't have the ~/.bash_aliases file, use ~/.bashrc instead.

Optional: to make the railss alias available in old, already-opened Terminal tabs, run source ~/.bash_aliases.

Upvotes: 1

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