Elasticfox, OSX and iTerm

October 1st, 2008

Elasticfox is a nice extension for managing your relationship with EC2 from within Firefox.  It’s XUL-based, somewhat homely and odd.  But it’s so much nicer than dealing with the ec2-* scripts directly and copying Amazon’s wacky hash identifiers hither and thither.

But on OSX, the “ssh to this instance” button is wired up to Terminal.app.  I can’t stand Terminal.app.  I much prefer iTerm.

So, a little AppleScript hacking, and Elasticfox now uses iTerm to connect to instances through ssh.

Instead of jamming it all into a dozen -e options on osascript, I just put it in a file, and changed my configuration.

Elasticfox configuration

And the script itself:


on run argv
  tell application "iTerm"
    activate
    set cmd to "ssh -i " & item 1 of argv & " " & item 2 of argv
    set myterm to the last terminal
    tell myterm
      launch session "Default Session"
      tell the last session
        write text the cmd
      end tell
    end tell
  end tell
end run
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4 Responses to “Elasticfox, OSX and iTerm”

  1. 1 Al
    October 29th, 2008 at 3:05 pm

    Very nice – worked first time. Many thanks.

  2. 2 Shlomo
    October 30th, 2008 at 9:26 am

    Awesome!

    I needed to change the script because my keys were named id_rsa-{$key}, so my SSH Key Template line looks like this:

    ${home}/ec2-keys/id_rsa-${key}

    Thanks for this tip!

  3. 3 Tom
    November 20th, 2008 at 11:50 am

    Awesome — thanks very much!

  4. 4 Bret McMillan
    January 19th, 2009 at 10:09 pm

    Take a look at:

    https://console.aws.amazon.com/

    Amazon finally is taking some steps to make EC2 a consumable service. Not perfect, but getting better :)

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