Personal TODO Comment

Rationale

While working on a particular feature it can be useful to leave TODO comments for yourself in the source code.

RubyMine has features that will help you by allowing you to see all of your personal TODOs and warning you when you are about to commit a personal TODO to your source code repository.

I prefer to add my initials and a creation date to each personal TODO. The initials allow the rest of the team to track me down. The creation date lets me know if an unresolved TODO is fresh or ancient.

I use personal TODO comments to keep track notes during a programming episode (or even a feature branch).

Mechanism

Preferences > Editor > TODO

Patterns

Configuration	Value
Icon:	your choice
Case Sensitive:	Yes
Pattern:	\bARM\b.*

Filters

Configuration	Value
Name:	Alistair's TODOs
Pattern:	\bARM\b.*