RubyMine 2022.2 Help

Rails navigation

RubyMine helps you navigate between the Rails components, such as controllers, views, models, tests, and so on. For example, from a model, you can navigate to a controller, a table schema in schema.rb or structure.sql, a test, or a corresponding factory. Navigation capabilities are available in the editor, tool windows, and model dependency diagrams.

To navigate between Rails components:

  1. From the main menu, go to Navigate | Related Symbol... Ctrl+Alt+Home.

  2. Select the desired target from the popup menu, or press a corresponding key, specified on the left (for example, 4 for View (edit.html.erb) in the animation below).

    Navigate from controller to view

    Below are few examples:

    • Controller action -> View

    • Controller action -> Route in routes.rb

    • Model -> Factory

    • Model -> Table schema in schema.rb or structure.sql

You can navigate between Rails components using gutter icons.

  1. If you want to jump to a view file associated with an action, open the corresponding controller, locate the desired action, and click the gutter icon next to the action definition.

    Navigate from controller to view
  2. To navigate back from a view to the corresponding action, open the view file in the editor, and click the gutter icon.

    Navigate from view to controller

The Partial declarations gutter icon in the editor marks a partial declaration. Pointing to this icon shows information about the other parts of the same declaration. To navigate to a partial declaration, click the gutter icon and select the desired part of the declaration from the popup.

Navigate to partial declaration

RubyMine allows you to jump from nodes/associations in a model dependency diagram to corresponding classes in code.

Navigate from a model

To do this, right-click the required node/association in the diagram and select Jump to Source F4. If you have selected a one-to-many or many-to-many association, you can choose the desired association part.

Navigate from a model association
Last modified: 09 August 2022