Lighthouse + Quicksilver = Even quicker ticketing

If you’re a Ruby person, or you keep an eye out on web applications you probally have heard of Lighthouse by the talented chaps at Active Reload (How cool is that ei? Named after Gears Of War).

They’ve recently released (or it was a feature at the beginning and I hadn’t noticed it), that you can email tickets in. I’m currently using Lighthouse for my latest open–source application and using the tickets to resolve features, and feature–sets. I have made my life even easier by using Quicksilver’s Mail functions.

Do this:

  1. Open Address Book and add a contact, with the email (it can be found in the Tickets section) and a name that you’ll use to call to add a ticket. I use ‘Lighthouse MySuperCoolWebApp’.
  2. Now, type the name (Lighthouse MySuperCoolWebApp) and then start typing “Compose Email”, Hit Return.
  3. Type your ticket’s title into the subject like ‘Feature: New theme

If you need help, find it here.