Category Archives: Productivity

RubyMine 4.0 Early Access is Open

Posted on October 24, 2011 by oleg_s

Hello everyone, Today we are glad to announce that the RubyMine 4.0 EAP is open. There are loads of major and minor improvements compared to 3.2.x versions. Let us just mention some most important ones: Performance. We’ve reworked a significant … Continue reading →

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Plugin highlight: “Injector” brings single-key Ruby injections into ERB

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Eugene Toporov

If you use ERB for your Rails views, you should like this one. It may not be a problem for you but I always stumble when typing <% %>, let alone <%# %>. Non-letter keys and you have to press … Continue reading →

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RubyMine 3.2.4 — fighting for performance

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Eugene Toporov

We’ve just made another RubyMine update available — RubyMine 3.2.4. The main reason of the update is improved IDE performance. The improvements are made in Ruby specific functionality and also in the underlying IntelliJ Platform: memory footprint reduced for indexing JavaScript … Continue reading →

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Improved HAML auto-indenting in RubyMine 2.0.2

Posted on April 16, 2010 by Eugene Toporov

When you edit the code you should only think about the code, not the way it looks. And a good IDE, such as RubyMine, should do the rest, like auto-indenting and formatting the code as you type. So, we are … Continue reading →

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Lightweight project navigation with Navigation Bar

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Eugene Toporov

If you, like me, like the minimalistic UI, you’ve definitely hidden the toolbar and customized the RubyMine as you prefer. Here is one thing you may like as well — Navigation Bar. It is hidden by default in RubyMine. You … Continue reading →

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RubyMine TipCast: Find Files like a Pro

Posted on December 1, 2009 by Eugene Toporov

RubyMine provides numerous options to navigate from file to file: ‘Go to declaration’ (⌘B/Ctrl+B) Navigate to Rails… (⌥ ⇧ N/Alt+Shift+N) ⌘ Mouse Click/Ctrl+Mouse Click or mouse middle button click and many others. But sometimes you just need to open a … Continue reading →

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Execute selected code in console

Posted on August 10, 2009 by Eugene Toporov

IRB console in RubyMine is a quick way to execute Ruby code. Here is a quick hint on how you can quickly execute some code from the editor. Tools | Start the IRB console Select a code Tools | Load … Continue reading →

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5 keyboard shortcuts to get familiar with

Posted on August 3, 2009 by Eugene Toporov

You probably know RubyMine bases on IntelliJ platform and gets lots of cool features from the platform. Going even further, I will base this post on a post in IntelliJ IDEA blog. The author of the original posting has permitted … Continue reading →

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Did you know? Finding usages…

Posted on March 25, 2009 by Eugene Toporov

No matter how long you know RubyMine, you can still find something new in it. I was doing Productivity Tips update just yesterday and found one thing I did not know We quite often need to find where something is … Continue reading →

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What’s mining: run Rake tasks quickly

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Eugene Toporov

This one is really hot, not even available to our QA yet. We are adding the feature to quickly execute Rake tasks. Once activated, a field appears allowing to enter the name of a task to execute. The search mechanism … Continue reading →

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