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RubyMine can automatically add various closing elements to your code, for example, brackets, quotes, XML and HTML tags, or tags that wrap Ruby code within views (<% %>) .

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To enable or disable whether to add closing elements, open the Settings dialog CtrlAlt0S, click General under Editor, and then Smart Keys. For example, you can use the following options:

• Insert pair brackets

• Insert pair quote

You can generate an empty stub for a method that you want to use but have not yet defined.

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To do this, perform the following steps:

RubyMine lets you quickly add accessor methods for instance variables using the attr_reader, attr_writer, and attr_accessor attributes.

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To do this, perform the following steps:

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Note that if you create the variable’s Accessor after creating the Reader, RubyMine will replace a corresponding attr_reader with attr_accessor automatically.

You can override any method of a parent class by generating the corresponding method stub in a child class.

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Perform the following steps to do this:

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Use the button in the left gutter to open the overridden method declaration.

RubyMine provides standard templates for surrounding code fragments with various constructs based on the language of the source code. For example, you can wrap your code into the if … end or unless … end conditional statements.

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To surround a block of code:

RubyMine lets you quickly unwrap or extract expressions from enclosing statements.

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This action is available for:

• Ruby

• JavaScript

• XML and HTML tags

To unwrap or remove a statement:

Live templates can be used to insert frequently-used constructs into your source code, for example, loops, conditions, various declarations, print statements, tags, and so on.

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For more information, refer to Live templates.