Visual Studio 2017 Ruby On Rails

By default the extension provides sensible defaults for developers to get a better experience using ruby in visual studio code.
Visual studio 2017 ruby on rails. This extension provides language and debugging support such as formatting intellisense for ruby and debugging for rails. Ruby in steel developer features the ultra fast cylon debugger with breakpoints tracepoints call stack and drill down debugging. So it s the default ide especially for polyglot developers. It has analytical intellisense and from version 1 2 it has the unique visual rails workbench a full page drag and drop design environment for rails.
Navigation between related files through command. Extension for visual studio code 10k snippets daily update. Ruby in steel developer the most powerful ide for ruby and rails. Open vscode with root of your project.
In order to make this extension work you need. Ruby in steel text edition a low cost entry level edition. However these defaults do not include settings to enable features like formatting or linting. The second one i m using is ruby language colorization.
I like things looking pretty. So let s take it for a test drive and let s see how easy it is to use visual studio code for ruby development. Ruby rails auto add brackets in string interpolation. Ruby on rails support for visual studio code.
Search for ruby in the vs code extension gallery and install it. Your project root has gemfile and contains gem rails. Why use visual studio. In fact vscode tops the latest stackoverflow 2019 survey for most popular.
But my personal favorite is visual studio as it has extensive plugin support for multiple languages like golang php node js and more. This extension pack contains the most useful extensions i use for development of ruby and rubyonrails based applications. To use the new i18n ally extension you need to enable rails in your settings json with i18n ally enabledframeworks. Ruby on rails asset helpers and tag helpers snippets erb syntax highlights.