It is minor mode for editing Ruby On Rails code with Emacs. This repo is a fork of remvee emacs-rails and adds the missing Rails 4 structure.

Features

• Rails 4 ready
  Implements new rails 4 directory structure: app/models, test/models etc.
• Decorators
  Include in Navigation and Running Tests
• Navigation
  Go from unit test to model to controller to functional test to view etc.
• Running tests
  Run test for the current model, controller, lib, decorator etc.
• Console and webserver
  Run this console and webserver in a buffer.
• Rake tasks
  Run rake tasks like rake db:migrate
• Generations
  Run rails generate scripts like rails generate model …

Try C-h b to find out what key bindings are available and see M-x customize-group <RET> rails for all the knobs and switches.

Installation

All below listed packages (except this minor-mode) can be installed via MELPA, ELPA or MARMELADE.

Dependencies

• Ruby Mode
• Inferior Ruby Mode

Rails-minor-mode

Pull the latest version from github:

  git clone git://github.com/joe81/emacs-rails.git ~/.emacs.d/emacs-rails

Hook it up in your .emacs or .emacs.d/init.el with something like:

  (add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "~/.emacs.d/emacs-rails"))
  (require 'rails)

You’re ready to go.

Helpful packages

• rhtml-mode
• yaml-mode
• ruby-electric
• company-mode or auto-complete
• robe
• flymake-ruby, flymake-coffee, flymake-json, flymake-yaml
• autopair-mode
• yasnippet-mode
• coffee-mode

Choose Rails version

As default this mode can be used for Rails 4 projects. If you want to use it for Rails 3 projects, checkout the rails-3.x branch or use the original repo from remvee/emacs-rails.git

Usage

Switching

• C-c C-c g m goto models
• C-c C-c g c goto controllers
• C-c C-c g d goto decorators
• C-c C-c g d goto libs
• C-c C-c g h goto helpers
• C-c C-c g g goto migrations
• C-c C-c g j goto javascripts
• C-c C-c g s goto stylesheets
• C-c C-c g l goto layouts
• C-c C-c g p goto plugins
• C-c C-c g u goto model tests
• C-c C-c g f goto controller tests
• C-c C-c g i goto integration tests
• C-c C-c g d goto decorator tests
• C-c C-c g x goto fixtures
• C-return goto file on current line

Quick Switching

Quick switch from Model to:

• C-c c Controller
• C-c d Decorator
• C-c u ModelTest
• C-c x Fixture

Quick switch from Controller to:

• C-c m Model
• C-c h Helper
• C-c d Decorator
• C-c f ControllerTest
• C-up View of method
• C-down Select specific view

See context sensitive menus for other quick switchs.

Find files

• C-c f m find models
• C-c f c find controller
• C-c f h find helpers
• C-c f l find layout
• C-c f s find stylesheets
• C-c f j find javascripts
• C-c f g find migrate
• C-c f b find lib
• C-c f t find tasks
• C-c f v find view
• C-c f d find db
• C-c f p find public
• C-c f f find fixtures
• C-c f o find config
• C-c f a find assets

Tests

• C-c C-c y a Start all tests
• C-c C-c y u Start all model tests
• C-c C-c y f Start all controller tests
• C-c C-c y d Start all decorator tests
• C-c C-c y i Start all integration tests
• C-c C-c . Start all tests of current buffer
• C-c C-c , Start current test of cursor postition
• C-c / Toggle output window

Scripts and SQL

• C-c C-c k Kill script
• C-c C-c e Rails generate
• C-c C-c x Rails destroy
• C-c C-c s c Start Rails console
• C-c C-c w s Start/Stop Webserver
• C-c C-c w i Print Webserver status
• C-c C-c w i Auto open Browser
• C-c C-c s s Start SQL-Buffer
• C-c M-Z Start terminal console
• C-c C-c C-t Generate and update TAGS file
• C-c C-c r Start rake tasks

Database

• C-c C-c d m Run migrations
• C-c C-c d v Migrate to version
• C-c C-c d v Migrate to previous version
• C-c C-c d u Migrate version up
• C-c C-c d d Migrate version down

Misc

• C-c p Create partial from selection
• C-c b Create helper from block
• C-c s Search in project

Credits

A big thanks to Dmitry Galinsky for starting this project and Remco van ’t Veer and the other contributors who helped to push/enhance this project.