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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 …

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…

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 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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…