The other day I was looking for a way to see the output of the CoffeeScript compiler from within RubyMine, and I saw a mention of CoffeeBrew, which is an alternative syntax highlighting plugin to coffeescript-idea.
As an aside, when I moved to RubyMine 3, coffeescript-idea wouldn't install for me, so I had to manually copy the plugin .jar file from RubyMine 2 to RubyMine 3.
CoffeeBrew has a couple of advantages over coffeescript-idea:
- block comments!
- matching brace highlighting
At the moment it has a problem with highlighting interpolated expressions within strings, but the author is looking into a fix. The plugin can be installed from RubyMine.
Back to showing the CoffeeScript compiler output in RubyMine:
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Open Settings and go to External Tools
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Add a new tool with these parameters:
- Program: coffee
- Parameters:
-c -o public/javascripts --watch app/scripts(I store*.coffeefiles inapp/scriptsand compiled JavaScript goes intopublic/javascripts) - Working directory:
$ProjectFileDir$
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Start the tool from the Tools menu, and you will get a window that shows the output of the compiler. The compiler will run every time you save changes to a
*.coffeefile in the watched directory.
Next on my wishlist: support for CoffeeScript navigation (such as going to class declaration).