Tweak GEdit fo Ruby On Rails developement

General tips

This assumes gedit 2.20.x

Add support for .rhtml syntax highlighting.

cd /usr/local/share/mime/packages/
wget http://grigio.org/files/x-rhtml.xml
cd /usr/local/share/gtksourceview-2.0/language-specs/
wget http://grigio.org/files/rhtml.lang

Enable the following plugins in gedit preferences. These are included by default

Bracket Completion
Code Comment
Draw Spaces
File Browser Pane
Indent Lines
Smart Spaces
Snippets

Add the following plugins from gedit at gnome.org.

Class Browser
Word completion
Snap Open
Quick Highlight Mode

Below an example plugin classbrowser is installed.

pkg_add ectags-5.6
wget http://www.stambouliote.de/download/gedit_classbrowser-0.2.1.tar.gz
tar zxvf gedit_classbrowser-0.2.1.tar.gz
cd gedit_classbrowser-0.2.1
mkdir ~/.gnome2/gedit
mkdir ~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins
mv classbrowser ~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins
mv classbrowser.gedit-plugin ~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins

Restart gedit and enable classbrowser plugin in prefereces.

source

GMate on OpenBSD

py-webkitgtk - Todo-List plugin and Find in Project plugin
python-sexy - Go to File plugin - Not available?
pyinotify - Gedit Open Files and SnapOpen plugins - Not available?
ack-grep - Faster Find in Project - Not available?

pkg_add gedit                                                                                 
pkg_add gedit-plugins

References

GMate - Distribution of GMate add ons to make gedit more TextMate like.