Robe Alternatives

robe reviews and mentions

• Mastering Ruby Code Navigation: Ruby LSP Enhancements in the First Half of 2024
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jul 2024

  In emacs, there's robe mode which I found to work very well. It keeps a Ruby process running with your code loaded in it.

  I wonder why no one's written a Ruby LSP with this approach rather than relying on static analysis.

  https://github.com/dgutov/robe

• Is it too late to learn emacs as a vim lifer?
  3 projects | /r/emacs | 3 Oct 2023

  I also did this for over 20 years (well, with screen(1) back in the day first) and I managed a lot of scripts for rsync(1)ing configs and source code. Emacs was designed to run as a GUI and makes heavy use of control sequences that affect terminal emulators (such as C-c, C-s, C-q, C-h, C-z, etc.); I spent considerable time forcing Emacs to work nicely in my terminal under tmux (where I've always used M-t as my prefix key, but that's a story for another time!), and I had a pretty nice terminal workflow that way, but it was laughably and ironically a PITA to get Control-H and backspace working in a way that was satisfiable to me in all cases of all layers (terminal emulator -> tmux -> zsh -> emacs). I eventually gave up on that for reasons related to an insane thing I discovered and make heavy use of, called Org Mode, which I primarily use to organize and maintain and evaluate code blocks of scripting languages with a REPL integration (the whole reason I switched to Emacs one day in a fury of ragequitting Vim was to try Robe Mode). So I now run Emacs in the GUI as demigods intended, but this will likely not be an option for you given your SSH workflow.

• shell-maker: Make your own shell in 15 lines of elisp (batteries included)
  2 projects | /r/emacs | 8 Apr 2023

  This means I can be editing a shell script and easily inject arbitrary regions into a shell buffer for immediate testing (point never leaves the window where I am editing, and I can view the shell output in an adjacent window). This is similar to what Robe does with Pry within an inferior Ruby process using comint.

• Emacs and Rails
  3 projects | /r/emacs | 29 Sep 2022

  I work on a large rails project with Emacs and I had a lot of trouble with Eglot and LSP mode with Solargraph, and decided to try Robe and it has been working well for me the past few days

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