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rogergl
rogergl

Reputation: 3771

Recommendation for Emacs/Ruby setup

So far I'm very happy with my Clojure/Emacs setup but failed to come even close to this experience when using Ruby. I tried the enhanced ruby mode (no syntax highlighting) and robe (which fails with a syntax error as soon as the console is started). I would really appreciate any tips where to find some proper guidelines on how to configure Emacs for Ruby.

BTW: I do not need any Rails support. Just plain Ruby support.

Upvotes: 11

Views: 8422

Answers (2)

Bozhidar Batsov
Bozhidar Batsov

Reputation: 56595

I find the following setup quite good:

  • ruby-mode from Emacs 24.4 or above - it's quite an improvement over the one in Emacs 24.3
  • inf-ruby - a way to run irb/pry inside Emacs
  • smartparens - superb handling of delimiters like (), [], {}, do/end, etc.
  • yari - ri interface for Emacs
  • ruby-tools - adds commands to turn a string to symbol, symbol to string, single to double quote string, double to single quote string, clear string, interpolate and more...
  • flycheck + RuboCop for on-the-fly linting and code style checking

AFAIK many rubyists are also using yasnippet. I've given up on trying to find a good "intelli-sense" alternative for Ruby in Emacs, but other than that I'd say the above setup is quite solid. It's pretty much what you'd get by using Prelude's Ruby module.

Upvotes: 19

Noufal Ibrahim
Noufal Ibrahim

Reputation: 72735

This isn't a real answer since I'm not a Ruby user but I am tied into the Emacs community and these things have shown up on my radar before

Upvotes: 3

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