These are the steps needed to set up Sublime Text 2 as in the Ruby on Rails Tutorial. Instructions are for OS X; Linux and Windows users should make substitutions as necessary. (This may require web searches. Please let me know if you find something that you think should be included here.)

On OS X, you can set up subl as a command-line command by following the Sublime Text 2 instructions for the OS X command line:

$ ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" ~/bin/subl

This assumes that ~/bin is in your path.

For other platforms, either double-click the application icon or search around to learn how to set a command-line command. (Please email me if you figure it out for either Windows or Linux and I'll post the results here.)

Open up Sublime Text and use the View menu to modify the following settings:

View > Hide Minimap

View > Side Bar > Hide Side Bar

View > Layout > Columns: 2

$ cd /tmp
$ git clone git@github.com:mhartl/rails_tutorial_sublime_text.git
$ cp -r rails_tutorial_sublime_text/* \
        ~/Library/Application\ Support/Sublime\ Text\ 2/Packages/User/

Setup on Linux should be similar, but with a different target directory for cp.

On Windows, the target directory is as follows:

$ cd /tmp
$ git clone git@github.com:mhartl/rails_tutorial_sublime_text.git
$ cp -r .\rails_tutorial_sublime_text\* \
        '~\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 2\Packages\User'

Follow the instructions at sublime-text-haml-sass.

Select Preferences > Color Scheme > User > Railscasts

https://github.com/mhartl/rails_tutorial_snippets

https://github.com/alexstaubo/sublime_text_alternative_autocompletion

https://github.com/eddorre/SublimeERB

Follow https://github.com/maltize/sublime-text-2-ruby-tests. Then edit the file "Theme - Default/Widget.sublime-settings" in the Library/Application\ Support/Sublime\ Text\ 2/Packages directory:

$ cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Sublime\ Text\ 2/Packages
$ subl "Theme - Default/Widget.sublime-settings" 

In that file, change

"color_scheme": "Packages/Theme - Default/Widgets.stTheme"

to

"color_scheme": "Packages/User/CustomTestConsole.tmTheme"