Disable automatic code suggestions in RubyMine
Auto-suggestions in RubyMine have changed a lot since this card was written.
To disable the mostly useless automatic suggestion popups in RubyMine, go to File / Settings, then to Editor / General / Code Completion and uncheck Auto-display code completion.
You can still open the popup by pressing CTRL + Space. And you probably want to use Context-dependent word expansion instead, anyway.
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List of Helpful RubyMine Shortcuts
Navigation
CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + N-
Search for any symbol in your application, like CSS classes, Ruby classes, methods, helpers etc.
CTRL + SHIFT + N-
Search for filename in your application (also dependencies)
CTRL + E-
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