Hardcopy

For my Ruby development I have been using Visual Studio Code and WSL 2.

I wanted to move to a more Ruby friendly IDE... RubyMine.

I used this guide from the RubyMine Documentation: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/ruby/configuring-remote-interpreters-using-wsl.html#wsl_remote

The problem I had was the mapping between the Windows file system and the Linux one - step 6 in the documentation.

The problem seemed to be that the mappings didn't work when access the UNC shares for WSL 2. For example the UNC path for this blog is

\wsl\Ubuntu\home\cchild\repos\hardcopy.dev

The way around this is to map a network drive to the UNC path and us that for the mappings in RubyMine.

I ended up doing one mapping.

U: --> /

Rubymine WSL 2 Mapping

Hope this is useful.

Not 100% sure when this started, but I eventually got annoyed by Visual Studio and ReSharper having a different keyboard shortcuts for potential code fixes.

ReSharper is Alt + Enter Visual Studio is CTRL + .

Visual Studio was warning for some potential code problems and I want ReSharper to handle it all. Specifically it was the "Expression value is never used" warning, which wants you to discard the return value using the _ C# 7.0 discard. It gets annoying not knowing which keyboard shortcut the squiggle wants.

So eventually I found the setting, which is in the ReSharper settings rather than Visual Studio settings. In Visual Studio 2019 the exact location is as follows

Extensions —> ReSharper —> Options —> Code Inspection —> Settings —> Merge Visual Studio Light Bulb actions into ReSharper bulb.

There is also a setting here that will allow you to hide the Visual Studio squiggles - I did not find this useful, as when enabled you miss some suggestions even though using the keyboard shortcut with your cursor at the location will give you the same menu.

After enabling this setting, you can now use either of the above shortcuts and you get a merged menu of all options - much better!

Hope somebody finds this helpful.