Fuzzy Ruby Server

Fuzzy Ruby Server provides go-to-definition and find references features. It works flawlessly on my personal projects and very well at work as well. Sometimes it doesn’t know which class definition to go to, but it shows a list with a preview that you can select. At work, we have over-complicated namespaces and repeated class names, so it makes sense it can’t figure it out by itself.

I heard good things about and would recommend Ruby LSP, but I always have trouble making it work. At work, I use Docker, which is not supported unless you want to also run VSCode inside Docker. However, even on my own computer, I often see errors and can’t easily figure them out.

Fuzzy Ruby Server just works™️ with very good accuracy.

change-case

Change-case provides many commands to change the case of the selected text between snake, camel, pascal, constant, kebab, and many others.

This extension is especially useful when working with Rails and React; however, I find myself using it frequently within Ruby code as well.

Ruby Around the Block

This extension provides a Ruby Block Toggle command to toggle between { } and do end syntaxes for Ruby blocks.

vscode-run-rspec-file

rails-rspec-file-toggler

This extension provides a command to toggle between spec and implementation, and it works really well.

endwise

This extension adds the end in Ruby methods, classes, blocks, etc. Very small, yet coding without it is a hassle.

Standard Ruby or RuboCop

Depending on what linter/formatter you use, they provide format-on-save, which is very helpful. I don’t care about spacing or which type of comma to use. I just code, save, and then I see my code all fall in line.

erb

Provides syntax highlighting for ERB templates.

jbuilder highlight

Provides syntax highlighting for jbuilder templates.

Bonus: Non-Ruby related, yet very useful extensions

Tailwind CSS IntelliSense

Auto-complete when writing Tailwind classes, even when using @apply.

Thunder Client

Feature-rich alternative to Postman.

Project Manager

Save a folder or workspace as a Project in the extension and access them easily from a list.

Open In GitHub

Provides a command to quickly copy the GitHub link of the currently open file. Very helpful when you want to share the file or point to a line of code to send to someone on your team.

You can select a section in code, run the command, and send it. When the person opens it, it will be highlighted.

Git Mob co-author commits

Provides a list of co-authors to include in your commits. This is especially useful when pair programming.

TeamDocs

Provides a way to check your team’s markdown documentation without having to leave your code.

At work, we have a repository with all our documentation, such as ADRs, decision docs, setup docs, and guides. With this extension, I can preview all the docs by using the Activity Bar or by using the TeamDocs: search command.

In the Activity Bar

The search command

Previewing markdown docs

Have fun 💻 👋🏼