Gedit Rails Extensions

Here are some extensions for Ruby/Rails developers using gedit.

Install

The contained Makefile installs the MIME packages and syntax files to the system directories.

sudo make install
sudo update-mime-database /usr/share/mime

Restart gedit if it's already running.

For manually installing MIME packages:

sudo cp mime-packages/rails.xml /usr/share/mime/packages/
sudo update-mime-database /usr/share/mime

For manually installing syntax files (.lang):

sudo cp language-specs/*.lang /usr/share/gtksourceview-2.0/language-specs/ # for gedit-2
sudo cp language-specs/*.lang /usr/share/gtksourceview-3.0/language-specs/ # for gedit-3

MIME packages

rails.xml:

• RHTML Template (*.rhtml, *.erb)
• Ruby JavaScript (*.rjs)
• Ruby Rakefile (Rakefile)
• Ruby Rake Task (*.rake)
• Ruby XML Template (*.rxml, *.builder)
• YAML Document (*.yml)
• Haml Template (*.haml)
• Sass Stylesheet (*.sass)

Language Specs

• haml.lang: Specs for the Haml templating language
• rhtml.lang: Specs for the old Ruby HTML file type
• sass.lang: Specs for the Sass Stylesheet language