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VS Code Extensions for Ruby on Rails Developers

Thomas Van Holder
Better Programming
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4 min readSep 9, 2020
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Ruby is built with developer happiness in mind. However, if your editor is not correctly set up, you’re in for a painful ride. Finding the right extensions on VS Code can take you down a long trial-and-error path.

Here’s a list of powerful extensions for Ruby on Rails developers.

TL;DR

Ruby

  1. Ruby
  2. Ruby Solargraph
  3. Endwise
  4. ERB Helper tags
  5. Rails DB Schema
  6. Rubocop
  7. ERB Formatter
  8. Emmet in ERB

General

  1. Atom Dark Theme
  2. VSCode-icons
  3. DotENV
  4. Output Colorizer
  5. Auto Rename Tag
  6. Highlight Matching Tag
  7. Bracket Pair Colorizer 2

Ruby

1. Ruby

This speaks for itself. Ruby syntax highlighting.

2. Ruby Solargraph

Intelligent code completion and documentation while you’re writing code.

3. Endwise

Be wise and never forget to close the end immediately.

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