Beautify Ruby source code with Geany

Question

How can I get Geany to beautify or prettify ruby code? What's the distinction between the two, anyhow?

My main interest is indents, that the indenting is consistent and correct.

I would like to integrate the gem into Geany if there's no plugin.

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PlugIn for Ruby Refactoring

Answer 1

Geany allows this to be handled by external tools, for example astyle. Go to Edit->Format->Send Selection to->Set Custom Commands to set external tools up and play with astyle --style=gnu -FpPn, sort and others. As long as the script mentioned above is able to be ran from the command line, I guess it will also be possible to set it up as such an external tool.

For ruby in particular, you can use rbeautify.