 am here to talk about AC who here who here uses AC all right looks like we got about 50-50 here and for the 50% that don't you know this is a simple little thing that has made my life much much better so I am excited I want to share that with you because I'm always looking for simple things that will you know make my life better you know for example I've just given myself a promotion thanks to Roy's talk you know freelance architect simple thing makes my life better and you know I'm a freelance architect and there's my handles and stuff like that I love hard problems let me know if you have one but so I think this actually ties into a lot of these talks we talk about organizing code we talk about taking the big mess on the floor and putting it in little boxes and putting those boxes somewhere convenient we're replacing depth with breadth but that doesn't make it any easier to find things and we talk about reading code and you know one of the best ways to read and understand code is to start asking a questions and see what answers you get in the same with new projects so what is AC AC finds things and AC finds things really well AC is designed for code and it's designed for code projects and it's better than grep why is it better it's faster it's more intuitive and it skips stuff like your git repository by default so what is the big deal about that so I was going to let's see bring up a window and try to show you real quick so let's say I have an app and let's see how many things I have there so it is 8001 files it's a pretty big Rails project but you know let's say I want to find something like oh I don't know I want to find anywhere the word quest shows up you know it's pretty fast in fact it would be everything's swapped out of cash this is my ancient MacBook Air your new iPhones probably have more processor speed but you know it goes through all 8,000 files in oh I don't know two seconds so that that's something to be excited about and it's also nice to be able to find something like oh I want to find a field and I want to find it in oh I don't know my HTML files and so then all it does is look in the HTML files or if I want to find something like you know I just want to find it in the Ruby files I can you know look for it in my Ruby files and you know so there it is it's in specs it's all that all that other stuff and it can have intelligent default about case sensitivity and stuff like that and it's also very fast which is really good because as Mike says maintaining folk you know has implied maintaining focus is priceless so if you don't spend a lot of time trying to find crap you can actually keep your mind on your task so anyway so that's the big deal and it's actually really easy to install if you have home ring to brew install act you know it's on a boon to and you can even install it in Windows and I've you know worked much better than anything I've ever used to find things in a project in Windows you know you might need to tweak it a little bit you know for example it doesn't know about a lot of these fancy files that we use you know in Rails land so you know you can you can give it some options it has you know these are just command line options that you can give it so I can say okay you know I want Hamill to show up under HTML files and I want to you know be case and sensitive unless I put uppercase stuff in I want to sort things colors you know all that you know some other nice things you know I've got a link to the gist all you know and I posted the presentation to on under the hashtag for Twitter and there's also act at them which is an awesome plug-in that lets you do all of that great stuff like finding files in them gives you a nice little quick fix window and if I had my screen a little bit smaller you would see some context and you can go there and you can see all the matches which is very cool and so there are just all the references all in one place I posted I posted these slides the Rocky Mountain Ruby hashtag and there you go so get ready to grab you Zach