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The Getbundles Textmate bundle refuses to work under Ruby 1.9.2.  You will see a series of errors in the log file which can be seen by going to Bundles -> GetBundles -> Open Log File.

If Bundles -> GetBundles -> Get Bundles is not working for you, you will probably see something similar to this in your log file:

syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting keyword_then or ',' or ';' or '\n'

To fix this problem and to make life easier in general, I would suggest downloading RVM (Ruby Version Manager).  You can find install instructions here.  Once installed, you only have to run a few commands to fix the GetBundles issue.

rvm install 1.8.6

rvm use 1.8.6 --default

These commands will install Ruby version 1.8.6 and set it to your system default.  If you try  Bundles -> GetBundles -> Get Bundles again, it may work for you, or you might get another set of errors similar to:

/Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/lib/osx/plist.bundle: dlopen(/Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/lib/osx/plist.bundle, 9): no suitable image found. Did find: (LoadError)

To fix these errors, only three commands are needed:

cd /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/lib/osx/

svn export http://svn.textmate.org/trunk/Support/lib/osx/keychain.bundle

svn export http://svn.textmate.org/trunk/Support/lib/osx/plist.bundle

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