Using sublime quick panel and hooks to retrieve/save content from an external ruby script (Sublime Plugin)

SpotsManager.py

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import sublime, sublime_plugin
import tempfile, subprocess, collections

DEBUG_MODE = False
IS_OSX     = sublime.platform() == 'osx'

settings    = sublime.load_settings('SpotsManager.sublime-settings')
spots       = [ "spot:" + item for item in settings.get('spots') ]
variants    = [ "variant:" + item for item in settings.get('variants') ]
list        = spots + variants
file_names  = {}

def perform(action,file_name):
    if file_names[file_name] == 'variant': action += '_variant'
    args = collections.deque(["ruby", settings.get('spots-manager-cli'), action, "--file", file_name])
    if IS_OSX: args.extendleft(reversed(["/usr/local/Cellar/rbenv/0.4.0/libexec/rbenv", "exec"]))
    sublime.active_window().run_command("show_panel", {"panel": "console", "show": True})
    if DEBUG_MODE:
        print action + '::' + file_name
    else:
        proc = subprocess.Popen(args, stderr = subprocess.PIPE)
        print proc.stderr.read()


class UpdateSpotsListener(sublime_plugin.EventListener):

    def on_post_save(self, view):
        file_name = view.file_name()
        if file_name in file_names: perform('upload', file_name)


class UpdateSpotsCommand(sublime_plugin.TextCommand):

    def on_done(self, idx):
        if idx == -1: return
        tokens = list[idx].split(':')

        kind = tokens.pop(0)
        file_name = tempfile.gettempdir() + '/' + ':'.join(tokens)
        file_names[file_name] = kind
        perform('download',file_name)
        view = self.view.window().open_file(file_name)

    def run(self,view):
        self.view.window().show_quick_panel(list, self.on_done)

SpotsManager.sublime-commands

[
  { "caption": "Update Spots", "command": "update_spots" }
]

SpotsManager.sublime-keymap

[
    { "keys": ["ctrl+shift+8"], "command": "update_spots" }
]

SpotsManager.sublime-settings

{
  "spots-manager-cli": "...",
  "spots": [
    "...",
    "..."
  ],
  "variants": [
    "...",
    "..."
  ]
}