Teamocil is a cool utility for us tmux users. It helps manage your sessions, windows and panes in a way that makes it really easy to boot up preconfigured environments.
You could use teamocil to quickly start Vim in a split window with your continous tests running in an adjacent pane. Or you could SSH into all your servers in different panes, boot up htop and use teamocil as a wicked performance dashboard. The possibilities are endless.
I am using teamocil right now to write this blog post, having first booted up my Jekyll server and Guard instance in a separate window.
Installing teamocil
Teamocil is a Ruby gem and as such is dead simple to install.
$ gem install teamocil
$ mkdir ~/.teamocil
Configuring Teamocil for Jekyll
With Teamocil you can have multiple settings, each with a unique name in its separate YAML configuration file. Starting or editing one is done with the same command.
$ teamocil --edit jekyll
This will launch the jekyll configuration file in your $EDITOR of choice. For my Jekyll configuration, I use the following.
windows:
- layout: even-horizontal
clear: true
panes:
- cmd: "jekyll serve"
- cmd: "guard"
What it does is it creates a new window with two panes, one running jekyll serve to start the Jekyll server and another running guard to initialize my Guard rules.
Save and then try starting it.
$ teamocil jekyll