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Working With RBS in RubyMine

Starting with v2021.2, RubyMine provides code assistance for working with RBS files, along with all of the essential features that make RBS code easier to read. Here’s a brief overview. Creating RBS code Code completion Formatting and readability Navigation Refactoring Inspections Do y...

RBS: How to Get the Most Out of RubyMine’s Code Assistance

The following article shows the benefits of investing some of your time into adding RBS declarations to your project. Catch type errors RubyMine performs real-time type checking based on the information stored in .rbs files. It will show a type error if there’s a mismatch between the RBS and Ruby co...

How to Run Ruby/Rails Commands from the IDE instead of the Terminal

In the Ruby/Rails community, using a terminal is the most popular way to perform various commands and tasks. These tasks include running scripts, tests, Rails generators, Git and Docker commands, and many other things. We also noticed this ourselves when we did some RubyMine usability testing among ...

Find usages in RubyMine

To get the most recent information about Searching for usages in RubyMine, refer to the Search for usages topic. Find usages can be used to find all the pieces of code referencing a specific element, such as a class, method, symbol, or many of the others. RubyMine can also find dynamic usages, in...

Debugging in RubyMine

To learn more about debugging capabilities available in RubyMine, refer to the help topics and tutorials from the Debug section. One of the main advantages of IDEs over text editors is the debugging experience. In this blog post, we’ll review the rich debugging capabilities available in RubyMine...

YARD support in RubyMine

YARD is a popular Ruby documentation generation tool that is used in multiple libraries for documenting code. RubyMine helps you to work with YARD tags and documentation in various ways, for example, you can view the documentation using Quick Documentation Lookup, create missing YARD tags, and check...

Learn RubyMine with IDE Features Trainer

RubyMine provides you with loads of different useful features for working with source code: from basic code editing, smart navigation, and completion, all the way through to debugging remote applications. We always try to make features easy to use and discoverable, but sometimes it happens that our ...

How to work with Docker/Docker Compose from RubyMine

To get the most recent information about Docker support in RubyMine, refer to our documentation: Tutorial: Docker Compose as a remote interpreter Tutorial: Docker as a remote interpreter RubyMine 2019.1 has a bunch of capabilities which allow you to work with Docker and Docker Compose. You can i...

Profile Ruby & Rails Apps With rbspy in RubyMine

RubyMine 2019.1 adds support for rbspy – a great sampling profiler for Ruby (many thanks to @jvns!). This post will help you start profiling your Ruby/Rails apps with RubyMine in 5 minutes. Here are the exact steps: Identify the scenario to be analyzed Create a profiler configuration Run...

A Quick Look at Smart Keys in RubyMine

RubyMine has a number of Smart Keys – configurable options that help you avoid extra typing, and navigate through the code faster. Most of the smart keys, like auto-inserting closing brackets and quotes are on by default. However, there are other options you may want to enable. For instance, you ma...

Running Tests in RubyMine: Overview & Improvements

RubyMine comes with a testing suite for running RSpec, Minitest, Cucumber, and other tests based on your current context, and working with them in a friendly graphical user interface. Let’s see how it works in the following example. Run Tests Rerun Failed Tests Test Gutters Navigate to test...

Intention Actions in RubyMine

RubyMine provides you with a set of intention actions that can help you to quickly fix code smells, convert statements for better code style, add strings to locale dictionaries, use language injections, and do other handy things simply by pressing Alt+Enter. Let's review all...