Managing Configuration with tmuxinator

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👈 Using tmux Confi guration for Setup | TOC | What’s Next? 👉

tmuxinator is a simple tool you can use to define and manage different tmux configurations. You define window layouts and commands in a simple YAML format, and then launch them with the tmuxinator command. Unlike the other approaches, tmuxinator offers a central location for your configurations and a much easier dialect for creating complex layouts. It also lets you specify commands that should always run before each window gets created.

tmuxinator requires the Ruby interpreter, so you’ll need to have that on your system. If you’re on a Mac, you already have Ruby installed, and if you’re on Linux, you can usually install Ruby through a package manager. However, if you plan to use Ruby for anything beyond tmuxinator, I strongly encourage you to install Ruby through RVM by following along with the instructions on the RVM website.[9]

Install tmuxinator by using Rubygems, which is the package management system for Ruby.

If you are not using RVM, you will need to run this as root or with the sudo command.

Now we can create a new tmuxinator project. Let’s call it “development.” Execute this command:

This pops open the editor you assigned to the $EDITOR environment variable and displays the default project configuration, which looks like this:

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