http://blog.isshen.com/articles/2007/07/26/ruby-beautifier en-us 40 <p>I use jEdit for Ruby on Rails development. I only need three things from it:</p> <ol> <li>Project Viewer / File tree panel (like on TextMate)</li> <li>Search in directory. The "find" command is OK, but the jEdit HyperSearch will take me directly to the line number in the file.</li> <li>Autoformatting and autoindenting.</li> </ol> <p>I am not particular to syntax highlighting. I don't need to have integrated SQL, log windows, or Subversion/SVK integration -- I use Tilda, a drop-down Gnome terminal bound to function keys. </p> <p>jEdit 4.2final does (1) and (2) well. It does not do (3) well. I may get fed up enough to find a new editor soon to work with Ruby on Rails. Now, I can work with the broken autocompletions, but I have difficulty working with the broken autoindents. It looks fine when I see it in jEdit, but the resulting text does not output correctly. Probably because I did not set the indent options properly. <strong>Update</strong>: Yep, need to set "soft indent" and emulate indents with spaces.</p> <p>Fortunately, there is a command-line script that will <a href="http://www.arachnoid.com/ruby/rubyBeautifier.html">beautify Ruby scripts.</a> It may not work in all the weird cases, but I can bind it to a rake task and apply it to the entire app/ directory.</p> Thu, 26 Jul 2007 02:11:00 -0500 urn:uuid:97f9a0c6-9b09-4db6-a644-14ed60768a79 Hosh http://blog.isshen.com/articles/2007/07/26/ruby-beautifier Ruby on Rails tools ruby_on_rails ruby