Make new document in TextMate with rb-appscript or AppleScript? - ruby

Question

How do I make a new document in TextMate using rb-appscript or AppleScript?
Here is my rb-appscript:
te = app("TextMate")
te.launch
doc = te.make(:new => :document)
But it doesn't work.
Here is the error message I get:
OSERROR: -10000
MESSAGE: Apple event handler failed.
COMMAND: app("/Applications/TextMate.app").make({:new=>:document})
If someone gives me an AppleScript code I can convert it to rb-appscript.

Answer 1

Technically, it's supposed to be just this:
tell application "TextMate"
set theResult to make new document
end tell
But I get the same error in Script Debugger. Creating a new document manually and getting the document via a script works fine. I'm going to say you found a bug in TextMate's Applescript implementation. You could go the GUI scripting route here (shamelessly copied from the Mac OS Automation site):
return do_menu("TextMate", "File", "New")
--> result: true and a window appeared in TextMate
on do_menu(app_name, menu_name, menu_item)
try
-- bring the target application to the front
tell application app_name
activate
end tell
tell application "System Events"
tell process app_name
tell menu bar 1
tell menu bar item menu_name
tell menu menu_name
click menu item menu_item
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
return true
on error error_message
return false
end try
end do_menu