Ruby Language and Debugging Support for Visual Studio Code

This extension provides rich Ruby language and debugging support for VS Code. It's still in progress ( GitHub ), please expect frequent updates with breaking changes before 1.0.

It started as a personal project of @rebornix, aiming to bring Ruby debugging experience to VS Code. Then it turned to be a community driven project. With his amazing commits, @HookyQR joined as a contributor and brought users Linting/Formatting/etc, made the debugger more robust and more! If you are interested in this project, feel free to join the community: file issues, fork our project and hack it around and send us PRs, or subscribe to our mailing list.

Install

Install Extension

Press F1, type ext install then search for ruby.

Debugger

Install Ruby Dependencies

In this extension, we implement ruby debug ide protocol to allow VS Code to communicate with ruby debug, it requires ruby-debug-ide to be installed on your machine. This is also how RubyMine/NetBeans does by default.

• If you are using JRuby or Ruby v1.8.x (jruby, ruby_18, mingw_18), run gem install ruby-debug-ide, the latest version is 0.6.0
• If you are using Ruby v1.9.x (ruby_19, mingw_19), run gem install ruby-debug-ide, the latest version is 0.6.0. Make sure ruby-debug-base19x is installed together with ruby-debug-ide.
• If you are using Ruby v2.x
  • gem install ruby-debug-ide -v 0.6.0
  • gem install debase -v 0.2.2.beta10 or higher versions

Add VS Code config to your project

Go to the debugger view of VS Code and hit the gear icon. Choose Ruby or Ruby Debugger from the prompt window, then you'll get the sample launch config in .vscode/launch.json. The sample launch configurations include debuggers for RSpec (complete, and active spec file) and Cucumber runs. These examples expect that bundle install --binstubs has been called.

Detailed instruction for debugging Ruby Scripts/Rails/etc

Read following instructions about how to debug ruby/rails/etc locally or remotely

• Debugger installation
• Launching from VS Code
• Attaching to a debugger
• Running gem scripts
• Example configurations

Debugger F.A.Q.

Conditional breakpoint doesn't work

You need use Ruby 2.0 or above and you need to update debase to latest beta version gem install debase -v 0.2.2.beta10.

Linters

Available Linter hooks

You will need to install the ruby gem for each of these for linting to work (except ruby -wc of course)

• ruby -wc
• rubocop
• ruby-lint
• reek
• fasterer
• debride

Enable each one in your workspace or user settings:

// Basic settings: turn linter(s) on
"ruby.lint": {
	"reek": true,
	"rubocop": true,
	"ruby": true, //Runs ruby -wc
	"fasterer": true,
	"debride": true,
	"ruby-lint": true
}

//advanced: set command line options for some linters:
"ruby.lint": {
	"ruby": {
		"unicode": true //Runs ruby -wc -Ku
	},
	"rubocop": {
		"only": ["SpaceInsideBlockBraces", "LeadingCommentSpace"],
		"lint": true,
		"rails": true
	},
	"reek": true
}

By default no linters are turned on.

Each linter runs only on the newly opened or edited file. This excludes some of the linters functionality, and makes some overly chatty - such as ruby-lint reporting undefined methods. The usual configuration file for each linter will be use as they would be when running from the command line, however settings that include/exclude files will not likely be followed.

Relevant configuration files:

• debride: none
• ruby: none
• reek: *.reek
• fasterer: .fasterer.yml
• ruby-lint: ruby-lint.yml
• rubocop: .rubocop.yml

Settings available (in your VSCode workspace) for each of the linters:

"debride": {
	"rails": true //Add some rails call conversions.
}

"ruby"//no settings
"reek" //no settings
"fasterer" //no settings

"ruby-lint": {
	"levels": [/* a subset of these */ "error","warning","info"],
	"classes":[ /* a subset of these */ "argument_amount", "loop_keywords", "pedantics", "shadowing_variables", "undefined_methods", "undefined_variables", "unused_variables", "useless_equality_checks" ]
}

"rubocop": {
	"lint": true, //enable all lint cops.
	"only": [/* array: Run only the specified cop(s) and/or cops in the specified departments. */],
	"except": [/* array: Run all cops enabled by configuration except the specified cop(s) and/or departments. */],
	"require": [/* array: Require Ruby files. */],
	"rails": true //Run extra rails cops
}

Formatting

Formatting requires the rubocop gem to be installed. Note that you may have to turn on some of the AutoCorrect functions in your .rubocop.yml file. See the rubocop documentation.

Autocomplete

To enable method completion in ruby: gem install rcodetools. You may need to restart Visual Studio Code the first time.

[1, 2, 3].e #<= Press CTRL-Space here

Go to definition

Now includes workspace parsing functionality. Allows VS Code to go to definition and peak definition for modules, classes, and methods defined within the same workspace. You can set glob patterns to match including and excluding particular files. The exclude match also runs against directories on initial load, to reduce latency.

The default settings are:

"ruby.locate": {
	"include": "**/*.rb",
	"exclude": "{**/@(test|spec|tmp|.*),**/@(test|spec|tmp|.*)/**,**/*_spec.rb}"
}

The defaults will include all files with the rb extension, but avoids searching within the test, spec, tmp directories, as well as any directories begining with a ., AND any files ending with _spec.rb.

If you change these settings, currently you will need to reload your workspace.

We now provide go to definition within erb files, as well as syntax highlighting for erb.

Features

• Ruby scripts debugging

  • Line breakpoints (add, delete, disable, enable)
  • Step over, step in, step out, continue, pause
  • Multiple, parallel threads
  • Call stack
  • Scope variables
  • Debug console
  • Watch window
  • Variables evaluate/inspect
  • Stop on entry
  • Breaking on uncaught exceptions and errors
  • Attach requests
  • Breakpoints can also be set in .erb files
  • Conditional breakpoints

• Ruby remote debug

• Rails debugging

• Unit/Integration tests debugging

  • RSpec
  • Cucumber

• IntelliSense and autocomplete

• Go to definition

  • Including within .erb files

• Language colorization support

• Linting

• Code formatting

TODO

• Unit/Integration tests debugging
  • Shoulda
  • Test::Unit
• Rack
• Rake
• IRB console

License

This extension is licensed under the MIT License.