JEdit

Using jEdit with Rails

At the moment, I'm playing around with jEdit.

• After downloading and installing it, I configured it with these settings:

<a

href="http://www.tanguay.info/web2008/tutorial.php?idCode=rubyOnRails&sectionIdCode=configureJEditForRuby">Configure jEdit for Ruby</a>

It took me a while to find it, but to access your files, there's a File

Browser System that's invisible or collapsed to the side by default. If it's not there, try:

• Utilities &gt; File System Browser. There should be an option for you to dock it somewhere in the main window.

Rails 2.1.* started naming the view files *.html.erg instead of *.rhtml. This caused the view files to lose its syntax highlighting. To get jEdit to recognize the new extension:

• Utilities &gt; Global Options &gt; Editing. In the "Change settings for mode", select "rhtml".
• Uncheck "user default settings".
• Under File name glob, change *.rhtml to *.{rhtml,html.erb}
• Apply