I had an issue recently whereby Ack in my Textmate install would just hang with a spinner, yet still work just fine from the command line.
After some digging it transpires that this is related to me installing and mucking about with RVM, the Ruby version manager. Essentially, Textmate isn’t a big fan of this, so therefore needs a little hand-holding. Luckily it’s pretty straight forward:
Go to Preferences -> Advanced -> Shell Variables and add TM_RUBY as the variable and “/usr/bin/ruby” as the value.
Job done.
