Open ExpanDrive Files in Safari via their "Web URL"
Often when I work with ExpanDrive the files correspond to some website I own. When I was using an SFTP Program I could "open the webpage" with the click of a button. I felt that feature was missing from ExpanDrive. Secondly I work from the command line quite a bit (or at least have access to shell commands from my GUI editors). I just saw that there is a "Copy Web URL" being implemented, but I couldn't wait.
I implemented a command line ruby script that will check if you're in an ExpanDrive mounted drive (by checking the preferences file with `defaults`), and just like the built-in `open` command on Mac OS X the `expanurl` command I created will open up the file in the associated webpage. Its a simple Ruby script. I'm open for suggestions/improvements and if people are interested I could make it more robust.
Its available on GitHub so feel free to download/fork/improve:
http://github.com/JosephPecoraro/scri...
[Speaking of which, I just fixed the typo in the Error checking output!]
I've only been using ExpanDrive since MacZot and I'm really really impressed. I can't believe I went so long without it. Keep up the great work guys!

I implemented a command line ruby script that will check if you're in an ExpanDrive mounted drive (by checking the preferences file with `defaults`), and just like the built-in `open` command on Mac OS X the `expanurl` command I created will open up the file in the associated webpage. Its a simple Ruby script. I'm open for suggestions/improvements and if people are interested I could make it more robust.
Its available on GitHub so feel free to download/fork/improve:
http://github.com/JosephPecoraro/scri...
[Speaking of which, I just fixed the typo in the Error checking output!]
I've only been using ExpanDrive since MacZot and I'm really really impressed. I can't believe I went so long without it. Keep up the great work guys!

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Inappropriate?Joesph, this is awesome. Great work!
We are really thankful to have users like you out there.
Would you object to us making a post on our blog about your script?
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Inappropriate?Yah sure no problem. I'll be doing the same later this week.
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