Using Regex in Textmate to convert HTML comments to Ruby comments

To cut down on space, I felt it would be easy enough to convert HTML comments to Ruby comments, so I looked for a way to do this site-wide.

Using the Regex option in textmate’s “find in project” utility will get you the results you need.

Using a simple RegEx…

<!--(.*)-->

and then using the replace

<%#$1%>

Will convert ALL HTML comments to ruby comments.

Warning..  if you have ruby inside an HTML comment, this could prove disasterous..  ie.

<!--<a href="<%= variable_name %>">a link</a>-->

Or, if you use comment shorthand. (so I like to call it.)

<!--a href="blah.html">a link</a-->

Oh!  and uh.. don’t forget to check the option for Regular expressions..  or else it wont work at all.   hah!