Emacs Railsy-ness

For the most part, I followed the instructions at Dima’s Rails On Emacs page. This worked for the most part, however there were several gotchas that crept up as I was working my way through. Here’s what I did, that might be different than the other tutorials:

I placed the snippets.el and find-recursive.el into the folder that I checked out the Rails on Emacs code. (Perhaps this is what he meant by install, but I originally had them in .emacs.d, and that was wrong.) ruby-inf.el did, however remain in .emacs.d
I reinstalled ruby and installed ruby-elisp from synaptic. I did this because I read that when you install ruby on debian/ubuntu it will automatically install the necessary emacs modes.
Tip After opening emacs, change your buffer to “Messages” it will have all the init information, and I found it very handy for debugging.

I’m also going to install the Emacs Code Browser, which is supposed to provide some parsing of files to show methods, and other view-related functions.

Here’s my .emacs file:

(custom-set-variables
  ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste it!
  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
 '(standard-indent 2))
(custom-set-faces
  ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste it!
  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
 '(default ((t (:stipple nil :background "#000000" :foreground "#00ff00" :inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline nil :underline nil :slant normal :weight normal :height 164 :width normal :family "adobe-courier")))))
;; this line makes a file executable after saving it
(add-hook 'after-save-hook 'executable-make-buffer-file-executable-if-script-p)
(setq load-path (cons "~/.emacs.d/emacs-rails" load-path))
(require 'rails)

Emacs Railsy-ness

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