When you paste copied code with CTRL+V, RubyMine will change the indentation of the pasted code. You can prevent this by pasting with CTRL+ALT+Shift+V instead ("Paste Simple").

To change this behavior entirely, you can open your settings and navigate to Editor / General / Smart Keys. Here you can select one of three options for Reformat on paste:

• None
• Indent Each Line (default)
• Indent Block
• Reformat Block

You might want to try "Indent Block".

From time to time, RubyMine suddenly did not accept any keyboard input and felt crashed, while mouse interaction was still possible. This apparently happens to all IntelliJ IDEs, especially on Ubuntu 14.04.

I've managed to fix it by having a shell script that exports XMODIFIERS="" when launching RubyMine, like this:

#!/bin/sh
XMODIFIERS= /home/arne/rubymine/bin/rubymine.sh

It has been working reliably for me ever since, at least until RubyMine 8.

An alternate solution suggested on the [Jetbrains issue tracker](https://youtrack….

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

Open a list of recently opened files

ALT + POS1

Open a the navigation bar as a context menu. Allows you to quickly navigate between files.

Actions

CTRL + SHIFT + A

Find and execute a menu actio…

In my RubyMine I have recorded two macros for debugging and linked them to some keyboard shortcuts. Since I believe everyone could benefit from having those I wanted to share this.

The first one simply inserts

binding.pry

and the second one

.tap { |object| binding.pry }

for when you do not have a reference to the object you want to inspect.

In order to record a macro you simply follow the path Edit > Macros > Start Macro Recording.

Then you simply type binding.pry or whatever you want to record and stop recor…

Code folding is a very useful feature to me. It gives me a quick overview over a file and keeps me from scolling like a hamster in its wheel.

Keyboard shortcuts:

Collapse/expand current code block

strg -/+

Collapse/expand the whole file

strg ctrl -/+

When diving into Cucumber features or huge Ruby classes, I usually collapse all and the gradually expand what I need.

This is an awesome gadget in your toolbox, even if your test coverage is great.

• gem install ruby-debug (Ruby 1.8) or gem install debugger (Ruby 1.9)
• Start your server with script/server --debugger
• Set a breakpoint by invoking debugger anywhere in your code
• Open your application in the browser and run the code path that crosses the breakpoint
• Once you reach the breakpoint, the page loading will seem to "hang".
• Switch to the shell you started the server with. That shell will be running an irb session where you can step thr…

RubyMine 7.1:

Settings -> Editor -> General -> Smart Keys -> Unindent -> To nearest indent position

RubyMine 7.0:

Settings -> Editor -> General -> Smart Keys -> Backspace smart indent -> uncheck

We have released Modularity 2. It has many incompatible changes. See below for a script to migrate your applications automatically.

There is no does method anymore

We now use traits with the vanilla include method:

class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
  include DoesTrashable
end

When your trait has parameters, use square brackets:

class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
  include DoesStripFields[:name, :brand]
end

Note how you…

Rubymine supports keybinding to switch panes by hotkey like awesome window manager users are used to.

Type "splitter" in the top right keymap section search field (not the global settings search).

Note: A splitter is what you get after using split vertically or split horizontally.

It is good programming practice to Don't Repeat Yourself (or DRY). In Ruby on Rails we keep our code DRY by sharing behavior by using inheritance, modules, traits or partials.

When you reuse behavior you want to reuse tests as well. You are probably already reusing examples in unit tests. Unfortunately it is much harder to reuse code when writing integration tests with Cucumber, where you need t…

To make this go away I had to wipe my RubyMine settings (~/.RubyMine) and configure everything again. Fun.

• You probably haven't configured version control for your project.
• Go to Project Settings / Version Control and set the director <Project> to Git

There is no reason to leave trailing whitespace characters in your project's files, so don't add any.

A git diff --check will tell you if there are any and you should not commit when you see them. So go ahead and switch your editor/IDE to automatically remove them for you.
Below are a few instructions on how to get them removed by your favorite IDE or editor.

Note that except for RubyMine, the following changes will remove trailing white-space on all lines, not only those that you changed.
While this should not be a problem if your proje…

RubyMine: Set specific Ruby version per project