JetBrains RubyMine Blog

We, software developing kind, are very demanding to customization abilities of the tools we use daily. There is almost no way a vendor can create a UI that will please all. And RubyMine, being a complex tool with lots of functionality, offers users a wide variety of options to customize and tweak the IDE. This includes keymaps, editor settings, custom color schemes for the editor, and many other appearance and user experience options.

In this 2-minute video we will demo some of the options that many will find useful.
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The time since the last RubyMine EAP update was not waisted and the new build 1347 adds lots of new things. Here’s the selected list of changes:

• Shoulda support with coding assistance and test runner UI
• Improved Ruby support inside HAML
• New refactorings: Pull Up / Push Down members (expect more in the next update)
• Spell checker plugin bundled
• Support for method type annotation: # :return:=> Type
• RubyMine Extensions manager added (in IDE Settings). Extensions can register menu items for editor actions (by default under Tools | Extensions)
• Cucumer Formatter and quickfix to create Cucumber step definition for unresolved step
• New icons for *.rb, *_spec.rb, *_test.rb and *_steps.rb Ruby files

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Have you ever wanted to see more code and less UI in RubyMine? With the latest RubyMine 1.5 EAP build you can make RubyMine UI more lightweight.

RubyMine has always allowed hiding almost any UI element. But one thing you probably would not want to do is turning off the toolbar. Of course you can turn it off but you’d loose the ability to select a Run/Debug configuration.

The latest RubyMine EAP build lets you select and start Run/Debug configurations without using the toolbar.

So, here is what you do:

1. Open ‘View’ menu and uncheck the ‘Toolbar’ option to hide the toolbar (optional step)
2. Remember the shortcut for opening the new popup ⌃⌘F8/Alt+Shift+F10 (⌘⇧R for TextMate keymap)

You will see a popup that lists all configurations and allows you to:

• Choose a configuration and Run it — simply press Enter
• Choose a configuration and Debug it — press Shift+Enter
• Start typing to filter the configurations
• Edit all configurations or a particular one in the usual screen.

Looks like an excellent time and screen space saver! Which is quite a big deal for our wide-screen monitors, right?

Download RubyMine 1.5 EAP and let us know your opinion on this and other new features.