From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2006-08-16T02:29:41+09:00
Subject: Re: newb: setting up GNU Emacs for Ruby -- help


On Aug 15, 2006, at 9:20 AM, John Gabriele wrote:

> So, how do I get emacs to recognize Ruby? Am I supposed to copy one or
> more of the misc/*.el files to my ~/.emacs.d directory?

Yes, and you want to add ruby-mode.el to the autoload list:

(autoload 'ruby-mode "ruby-mode" "Mode for editing ruby source files")
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.rb$" . ruby-mode))
(add-to-list 'interpreter-mode-alist '("ruby" . ruby-mode))
(autoload 'run-ruby "inf-ruby" "Run an inferior Ruby process")
(autoload 'inf-ruby-keys "inf-ruby" "Set local key defs for inf-ruby  
in ruby-mode")

Check out http://wiki.rubygarden.org/Ruby/page/show/ 
InstallingEmacsExtensions

poke around in there... there is some good stuff.

> Also, are we supposed to use *both* ruby-mode and ruby-electric, or
> instead, just one or the other?

Yes on ruby-mode, maybe on ruby-electric. Drives me bonkers but you  
might like it.