Before I begin this quick round up, for the record I am currently using:
Komodo IDE, version 6.1.0, build 60797, platform macosx-x86
I never really used the ‘Project’ feature on Komodo because annoyingly you cold only set up local projects and most of the files I worked on were stored on a remote server. Plus it is so quick and easy to open a file (local or remote) that I never really saw the need to create a new ‘Project’.
Komodo have been slowly leaking improvements, upgrades and new versions into its ActiveState software and somewhere along the line (I honestly couldn’t tell you where but probably new in 6.0) it is now possible to create a Remote Project.
There are probably much better reasons for having a remote project that this one, but for me, having all your remote files and folders right there in your sidebar is bliss.
Here is how (it is very simple but just not obvious or well documented).
1) Click on the little cog on your left sidebar
2) Select New Project
3) Give your Project a name (here I’ve called it ProjectX)
4) Right click on your Project (ProjectX) in the sidebar and select “Add -> Existing Remote Folder”
5) Select any of your predefined remote servers (assuming you have set some up)
6) If you want to see everything in the httpdocs folder, then select this folder
7) Right click on your Project and select ‘Show in Places’. Now all your remote project files are displayed in your sidebar
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Didn’t know they had added this. Pretty cool. But surely you should never work on live remote files. Use some sort of version control like GIT to syncronise your local files with a remote server.
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does code intelligence work with remote projects?
if so, this would be useful for development sites, but like Giles I would lean more towards some sort of version control for live environments.
another feature in 6.x that might compliment/replace this is called publishing mode, allows you to work on files locally and Komodo auto pulls/pushes updated files for you. useful if there are a few people on a team working on remote files.
Hi Gav, good news, code intelligence works on the remote projects. I’m not tempted by the publishing feature but might visit the docs and give it a trial run sometime as finding some of the Komodo 6.x features very useful.
Some of my projects are either so small or the project budget time is so tight that version control isn’t an option. That’s when the remote project setup comes in handy.
I am getting quite handy with the git lark though!
If time and money are tight, then version control is *even more* essential. Most decent version control systems (including Git, my current favorite) are free, and they let you work more quickly because you know you can always roll back your changes.
If “version control isn’t an option”, you shouldn’t be doing the project. Period.
Great tip, very useful, because I was struggling how to bookmark remote file (it seems impossible) and this solves the whole problem.
It appears that, even if you “Add to places”, the remote folder will not stay in Places across restarts of Komodo. You have to re-”Add to places” the remote folder from the Projects pane.