Configuring Ruby for Visual Studio Code

ByWalter Wimberly

Once you’ve installed Ruby on your machine, you want to get it ready to work in Visual Studio Code.

Ruby LSP - A Visual Studio Code Extension

You will want to install an Extension. So go to the Extensions menu, and search for: “Ruby LSP”. There use to be a Ruby extension, however it was deprecated, and this one was suggested.

I’ve installed it here. You can see it has a good backer (Shopify), however it’s rating isn’t great, but probably fine for what we’re doing.

If you don’t like this one, there are several other extensions you can look into.

There are other extensions you can install if you want, however we’ll start with this one only.

Alternative Compiler

Of course, there is an alternative compiler. One that you don’t have to install on your machine. You can simply use online, and this probably works well enough for small projects to learn on: https://www.onlinegdb.com/online_ruby_compiler

Configuring Ruby for Visual Studio Code was originally found on Access 2 Learn

Assistant Professor

Walter Wimberly is an Assistant Professor at a regional college in Tennessee, teaching Computer Science in the Software Engineering track. He works as a student advisor, oversees curriculum changes, develops new courses, and manages the advisory panel.
Walter taught full time for about 7 years, before going back into “industry” as a full stack Software Developer for a dozen years. There he focused on web based projects coding in JavaScript/jQuery and utilizing the Bootstrap CSS Framework on the front-end, and coding in PHP, ASP/ASP.Net, SQL on the back-end.

Since he loves teaching, he taught as an adjunct web and digital media classes for eight (8) years, while working in industry, and has since returned to teaching full time.

He has been married for over 25 years, and is father to several special needs boys. As such, he is working on some projects to help others who have special needs to be self-sufficient, and support the care givers of those with special needs. Check out his Autism blog for more info.

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