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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 developers at RailsConf 2019. We found that most participants ran Bundler commands and tests from th

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, including Rails associations, factories, or delegates. You have the ability to specify the scope and sea

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 and then we’ll have a quick rundown of the new debugging features added in v2019.2. These include per

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 the validity of a YARD tag. RubyMine can also utilize the YARD annotations for better code insight,

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 users still don’t know about some pretty handy capabilities. For example, when communicating with ou

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 inspect existing images and containers, quickly edit Docker files using autocompletion, create new imag

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 the program with the profiler attached Analyze the profiled data Export/Import the profiled data

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 may want to stop at parts of `CamelCase` and `snake_case` words when you navigate through the words

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 tests and back Run Tests Once your database and test environment are all set up, you can run all te

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 the basic and new intention actions added in RubyMine 2018.3. Quick Overview New intentions in RubyMine Quick Overv

This post will cover a number of handy options that RubyMine provides to help you internationalize your application, including the newest ones added in the recently announced RubyMine 2018.3. Creating I18n translations Creating I18n properties with scopes Creating keys for lazy lookups View locale values instead of keys Extracting text from HTML Creating I18n translations First of

RubyMine provides a number of refactorings that can help clean up your code quickly. In mere seconds, you can move files, extract code chunks into methods and variables, and rename values across your project. These options are available through the Refactor this popup, which is accessible by selecting Refactor | Refactor this or pressing Ctrl+T / Ctrl+Alt+Shift+T. Extract Method refactoring