Here is my usual routine to make a post for this blog:
open the terminal
type cd /Users/ChangeCheng/Documents…
type rake post title=””
open the finder step by step to reach _posts
then open the newly created post
Now, I am tired of all those meaningless and boring routine, then I just make an apple script to finish all those steps. Here is my code:
try
display dialog "Title of Post (use - as delimeter)" default answer ""
set postTitle to text returned of result as text
set curDate to current date
set curYear to year of curDate
set curMonth to month of curDate
set curDay to day of curDate
set Month_List to {January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December}
set i to 1
repeat while (item i of Month_List is not equal to curMonth)
set i to i + 1
end repeat
if i < 10 then
set i to "0" & i
end if
if curDay < 10 then
set curDay to "0" & curDay
end if
set formatedDate to curYear & "-" & i & "-" & curDay & "-"
do shell script "cd /Users/ChangeCheng/Documents/changecheng.github.com;rake post title=\"" & postTitle & "\""
do shell script "open -a Mou /Users/ChangeCheng/Documents/changecheng.github.com/_posts/" & formatedDate & postTitle & ".md"
end try
I tried to use records to pair months and their corresponding index, like set myRecord to {January:1,February:2}. However, it is quite query that records can’t be associated by variable, but only the key directly. For example, January of myRecord returns 1, but curMonth which equals to January instead will return error.
Anyway, it’s very quick and convenient to use a script, and I quite enjoy this!!
changecheng 06 November 2014