Injecting Ruby Code in View
View files contain markup and islands of Ruby code. Any text in view files will be perceived as Ruby code in the following cases:
- In
*.html.erbfiles, if such text is surrounded with<%and%>characters. - In
*.html.hamlfiles, if such text follows the equals sign. Besides that, Ruby strings are correctly interpreted if preceded with==.
Thus, having inserted the enclosing characters in view, you can type Ruby code, enjoying the Ruby-aware syntax and error highlighting and all sorts of coding assistance:
To inject Ruby code in a *.html.erb view, do one of the following
- Type the opening angle bracket
<, press Ctrl+Space, and select%from the suggestion list:
RubyMine automatically completes the closing characters. So doing, the caret rests in the next editing position within the
<%and%>characters. - Press Ctrl+Shift+Period to insert both opening and closing characters.
- Apply one of the surround templates, using Ctrl+Alt+T:
Last modified: 26 October 2017