IntelliJ® IDEA 7.0

Ruby debugger, capable of debugging Ruby and Rails applications and Rake tasks

• Works with Matz Ruby and JRuby interpreters
• Supports breakpoints both in Ruby files and in view templates
• Call stack, local and global variables, watches and threads view
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• Expression evaluation and smart display of arrays and hashes with highlighting of recently modified values

• Ruby code syntax and error highlighting
  IntelliJ IDEA provides automatic Ruby code syntax and error highlighting for statements, keywords, comments and other language elements.
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• Automatic Ruby code styling
  IntelliJ IDEA supports automatic Ruby code styling, with brace matching and folding, custom formatting, indentation and TODO marks.

Advanced Ruby code and project navigation

With IntelliJ IDEA you can navigate your Ruby projects in a variety of ways, view and examine documentation, method parameters, context info, etc.

• Ruby-aware structure view, quick structure popup
• Go to Ruby class, file, symbol and declaration actions
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• Quick declaration view, context and method parameter info
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• Ruby code documentation lookup with hyperlinks and navigation
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• Quick overriding of classes, modules and methods with active navigation gutters
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• Ruby code usage search for local variables, method parameters, class fields and constants
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• Goto Super (Ctrl-U), Goto Type Declaration (Ctrl-Shift-B) navigation actions
• Supertypes hierarchy for Ruby classes (Ctrl-H)
• Previous/Next Method navigation (Alt-Up/Down)

Smart, scope based Ruby code completion

IntelliJ IDEA provides intelligent code completion for Ruby language, which includes:

• Automatic completion of built-in methods
• Smart Ruby statements completion
• Completion and automatic resolution in require and load calls
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• Type inference-aware code completion
  IntelliJ IDEA dynamically checks types for variables and method return values when you are typing the code and offers the according coding assistance.
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Smart Ruby code analysis

IntelliJ IDEA performs on-the-fly code analysis and offers one-click quick-fixes for spotted problems.

Various Ruby-aware Intention Actions are available for transforming the source code.

• Type inference for block variables within block calls
• Incomplete hashes detection (with value missing after =>)
• Spot unreachable code
  

Multiple Ruby-aware refactorings

IntelliJ IDEA features the rich set of Ruby-aware refactorings, all ready to help you transform your project code quickly and efficiently:

• Rename refactoring (for classes, methods, variables, constants, method params etc.)
• Introduce variable
• Override method

JRuby code completion

• Alternative method naming (both boolean_value and booleanValue styles supported)
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• Both Ruby and Java-style getters and setters (both setSize and size = styles supported)
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• JRuby code completion

JRuby code inspections with instant quick-fixes

IntelliJ IDEA checks your Ruby code on-the-fly, highlighting various kinds of errors.

For all problems discovered, IntelliJ IDEA offers automatic quick-fixes.

RHTML support

IntelliJ IDEA fully supports RHTML, with smart code completion for both Ruby, JavaScript code and HTML tags.

It also provides automatic RHTML code styling and formatting, with braces and syntax highlighting and various RHTML-aware code inspections and quick-fixes.

• Improved support for embedded CSS in RHTML files
• Surround With (Ctrl-Alt-T) can enclose and RHTML fragment with an XML tag or with a Ruby control statement
• Smart Enter (Ctrl-Shift-Enter) can inserts the closing <% end %> tag for a control statement

YAML Support

The plugin now supports syntax highlighting and error highlighting for YAML files, based on the JvYAML library.

Advanced Rails project navigation

IntelliJ IDEA features the smart Rails project navigation with dedicated structure views, one-click switching between views and controllers and quick context menus for calling Rake tasks.

You can use the one-click active icons to quickly navigate around your application.

• Switch to view
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• Switch to action
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• Switch to layout
• Switch to controller

• Navigation between model, controller, helper, unit/functional/RSpec tests (Alt-Shift-N)
• Context toolbar for opening the corresponding page in a browser from Rails views
• View navigation actions suggest to create a view if none is found (Ctrl-Alt-W)

Autocompletion for rails controllers, helpers and views

• Rails specific completion for Controllers, Helpers, Views
• Completion specific for methods like url_for, redirect_to, etc.
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Rails code generation

• Automated generation of Rails skeleton applications
• Advanced tools for developing Rails generators, models, etc
• Quick insert action in action controller
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IntelliJ IDEA supports unit testing for Ruby projects, with:

• Quick tests launching for a specified method, class or set of tests
• Support for RSpec and Test::Unit frameworks

GUI runner for Test::Unit and RSpec tests with support for Rake tasks.

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• Stack trace analysis with one-click Ruby code navigation
• More than 50 Ruby and RSpec live templates
• Plugin page with plugin version, build and useful links in setting
• Dedicated Ruby run configuration and quick script execution
  IntelliJ IDEA lets you quickly run your scripts through dedicated configuration, plus supports shortcuts for Rake tasks, generators, RSpec, etc.
• Dedicated Rails run configurations with support for standard Rails servers (WEBrick, Mongrel, etc)
• Convenient view for Rails server logs