emacs-rails-kit

by Matt Swasey of Viget Labs

version 2

This is the second version of my emacs-rails-kit, the first was just a slightly modified emacs-starter-kit . Version 2 is a rebuild from scratch. It takes bits and pieces from configurations assembled by a number of different hackers’ (al3x topfunky technomancy defunkt crnixon) whom I admire.

This version can provide a base emacs configuration suitable for the average rails programmer to clone/fork and start using immediately.

No elpa packages are pre-installed, but I’ve included the elpa package library to allow for easier personal customization.

Instructions and Setup

1. clone or fork from my github repository
2. make a symlink to the root of the cloned repository to .emacs.d under your home directory
3. initialize and update the git submodules
4. start emacs!
5. optionally run recomple-init to byte-compile all the list files, which will make things go faster

Example

$ git clone git://github.com/mig/emacs-rails-kit.git ~/Library/emacs-rails-kit
$ ln -s ~/Library/emacs-rails-kit ~/.emacs.d
$ cd ~/.emacs.d
$ git submodule init
$ git submodule update

Tips

If you are running this under OS X, add these lines to sync the kill ring with the clipboard:

(global-set-key (kbd "C-w") 'clipboard-kill-region)
(global-set-key (kbd "M-w") 'clipboard-kill-ring-save)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-y") 'clipboard-yank)

You can run both Test::Unit (shoulda context included) and RSpec tests with M-r within the test file. This will open a new buffer and run the test file. This buffer is now auto-clearing.