Unresolved ruby reference in RubyMine

Question

Is there any way to avoid the "unresolved ruby reference" warning in RubyMine IDE? for example, when some code in my view calls a method of the view helper, I get the "unresolved ruby reference" warning even though the code works.

The case described above is just one of many. Another example is when using RSpec:

  it "should require an email" do
    no_email_user = User.new(@attr.merge(:email => ""))
    no_email_user.should_not be_valid
  end

the parameter "be_valid" is not known to the RubyMine IDE.

My question is - is there any way to solve this? should I require additional files? should I do something differently? Those false positives regarding unresolved ruby methods/constants are really disturbing, and it also affects the results of the "find usages" action in RubyMine.

I'm using RubyMine 3.1 I would really appreciate any help in resolving this issue.

Answer 1

This issue is already submitted to the RubyMine bug tracker, please watch/vote.

Answer 2

I think in this case this is hard to solve. Ruby allows great magic to happen using method_missing and as far as i know, the be_valid is also implemented in this way. Actually there is no be_valid but it calls the valid? method and expects it to be true.

In rspec, this work for any method ending in a ?. So if you have a method ready?, you can write should be_ready.

I am a fulltime Rubymine user, but i do not know how they could solve that nor do i expect it.