Project
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Basics
Whatever you do in RubyMine, you do that in the context of a project. A project is an organizational unit that represents a complete software solution. It serves as a basis for coding assistance, bulk refactoring, coding style consistency, etc.
Project Files
A project in RubyMine is represented in the Directory Based Format. A project directory is marked with icon.
Such project directory contains the .idea
directory, with the following files:
*.iml
file that describes the project structure.workspace.xml
file that contains your workspace preferences.- A number of
.xml
files. Each.xml
file is responsible for its own set of settings, that can be recognized by its name:projectCodeStyle.xml
,encodings.xml
,vcs.xml
etc.Thus, for example, adding a new run/debug configuration and changing encoding will affect two different
.xml
files. This helps avoid merge conflicts when the project settings are stored in a version control system and modified by the different team members.
All the settings files in the .idea
directory should be
put under version control except the workspace.xml
, which
stores your local preferences. The workspace.xml
file should be
marked as ignored by VCS.
.idea
directory is not visible in the Project view of the
Project tool window.
Project Types
The directory structure of each project contains the .idea
directory for the RubyMine-specific
settings and the project file, and libraries.
RubyMine suggests the following types of projects:
-
Empty project is intended for pure Ruby programming.
The directory structure of
such project contains the
.idea
directory for the RubyMine-specific settings and the project file, and libraries.Create a plain Ruby project as described in the section Creating Empty Project.
-
Rails application intended for the Ruby-on-Rails development. This project type
contains the specific infrastructure of the Rails applications, and all the necessary artifacts.
For the Rails applications, RubyMine provides a dedicated view in the Project tool window.
Create a Rails application as described in the section Creating Rails-Based Projects.
-
Rails mountable engine intended for the development of the Rails applications to
be used as plugins in the other Rails applications. This project type
contains the specific infrastructure of the Rails and Rails engine applications, and all the
necessary artifacts. For the projects of this type, RubyMine provides Rails view in the Project
tool window.
Create a Rails mountable engine application as described in the section Creating Rails-Based Projects. Define the Rains mountable engine specific settings and embed the engine into a Rails application as described in the section Working with Rails Mountable Engine Projects.
- Gem application project for developing, building and pushing gems to github. This project type provides the necessary infrastructure and artifacts, required for creating gems. Refer to the section Creating Gem Application Project for details.
- RubyMotion application intended for the development of applications for iOS. This project type provides the necessary infrastructure and artifacts, required for the RubyMotion applications. Refer to the section RubyMotion for details.
-
Client-side projects
HTML5 Boilerplate,
Twitter Bootstrap, and
Foundation.
For the client-side applications, RubyMine creates specific infrastructure, with the required files and directories.
Create project as described in the section Creating Projects from Scratch in RubyMine.