Launch some handy cheat sheets and other console windows for Rails development

rgo.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Launch some handy cheat sheets and other console windows for Rails development
# in unix-like systems

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launch-console() {
    xterm -T "$@" -e "$@" &
}

commands=("top" "cheat git" "cheat capybara" "cheat rspec" "cheat cucumber")

for comm in "${commands[@]}" ; do # I am not sure how the parameter
				  # expression works - see below
    launch-console "$comm"    	# quotes are needed here to pass the
				# arg in the right format
done

# With some valuable help from Charles Duffy's answer at
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/301039/how-can-i-escape-white-space-in-a-bash-loop-list
# more on the "${list_array[@]}" construction at
# http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/programming-9/bash-passing-arrays-with-spaces-611159/

This is too complicated. The -T option is not needed if your xterm is configured to set its title to the running program.