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:
- Open Settings and go to External Tools
- Add a new tool with these parameters:
- Program: coffee
- Parameters: -c -o public/javascripts --watch app/scripts (I store *.coffee files in app/scripts and compiled JavaScript goes into public/javascripts)
- Working directory: $ProjectFileDir$
- 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 *.coffee file in the watched directory.
Next on my wishlist: support for CoffeeScript navigation (such as going to class declaration).
