I just made my life a little easier with Automator today.
My usual use of Tinderbox for the website involves the following:
1) Work in Tinderbox.
2) Export to HTML for upload.
3) Open Terminal if it is not open
4) rsync from my local machine to the website.
Not terribly hard, but a bit tedious. Automator just made this a little easier. I made a workflow that takes a directory and rsyncs it to the right spot. Check out the sample. You'll probably want to stick it in your ~/Library/Scripts directory
Pretty simple workflow -- it asks for the export directory first. In my case I select ~/Sites/robothor/export and hit OK. Then it POSIX encodes the path and quotes the result in case there is a space in the path somewhere. The third step is executing a small shell script to upload to the server. If you want to modify the script, you'll need to change this. I am running sshKeychain, which handles giving the correct password to rsync. The final step is just a simple Growl notification letting me know it is done. This is very simplistic, but it seems to work for me so far.
At some point it would be nice to see either Automator actions or Applescript support to Tinderbox. Imagine running a workflow that tells Tinderbox to export as HTML, then automatically uploading this to the server. Unfortunately TB won't accept Automator workflows as scripts, so I can't call the script from within TB. Oh well...