CONTRIBUTING ↑

Testing changes ↑

Tracing LSP requests and responses ↑

LSP server tracing (logging) can be controlled through the ruby lsp.trace.server config key in the .vscode/settings.json config file.

Possible values are:

Manually testing a change ↑

There are a few options for manually testing changes to Ruby LSP:

You can test against Ruby LSP’s own code if using VS Code, and you have the ruby-lsp project open. Choose ‘Ruby LSP: Restart’ from the command menu and the VS Code extension will detect that you are working on ruby-lsp, and use the locally checked out code instead of the installed extension.

The other way is to use a separate project, and add a Gemfile entry pointing to your local checkout of ruby-lsp, e.g.:

gem "ruby-lsp", path: "../../Shopify/ruby-lsp"

With both approaches, there is a risk of ‘breaking’ your local development experience, so keep an eye on the Ruby LSP output panel for exceptions as your make changes.

Running the test suite ↑

The test suite can be executed by running

# The default runner
bin/test
# or the spec reporter
SPEC_REPORTER=1 bin/test
# Warnings are turned off by default. If you wish to see warnings use
VERBOSE=1 bin/test
# Run a single test like this: "bin/test my_test.rb test_name_regex", e.g.
bin/test test/requests/diagnostics_expectations_test.rb test_diagnostics__def_bad_formatting

Expectation testing ↑

To simplify the way we run tests over different pieces of Ruby code, we use a custom expectations test framework against a set of Ruby fixtures.

All fixtures are defined under test/fixtures. By default, every request will be executed against every fixture and the test framework will assert that nothing was raised to verify if all requests succeed in processing all fixtures.

Expectations can be added on a per request and per fixture basis. For example, we can have expectations for semantic highlighting for a fixture called foo.rb, but no expectations for the same fixture for any other requests.

We define expectations as .exp files, of which there are two variants: - .exp.rb, to indicate the resulting code after an operation - .exp.json, consisting of a result, and an optional set of input params

To add a new test scenario

  1. Add a new fixture my_fixture.rb file under test/fixtures

  2. For applicable requests, add expectation files related to this fixture. For example, test/expectations/semantic_highlighting/my_fixture.exp.json

To add a new expectations test runner for a new request handler:

# frozen_string_literal: true

require "test_helper"
require "expectations/expectations_test_runner"

class MyRequestExpectationsTest < ExpectationsTestRunner
  # The first argument is the fully qualified name of the request class
  # The second argument is the folder name where the expectation files are
  expectations_tests RubyLsp::Requests::MyRequest, "my_request"
end

# frozen_string_literal: true

require "test_helper"
require "expectations/expectations_test_runner"

class MyRequestExpectationsTest < ExpectationsTestRunner
  expectations_tests RubyLsp::Requests::MyRequest, "my_request"

  def run_expectations(source)
    # Run your request for the given source
  end

  def assert_expectations(source, expected)
    # Invoke run_expectations and then customize how to assert the correct responses
  end
end

Debugging with VS Code ↑

Debugging Tests ↑

  1. Open the test file

  2. Set breakpoints in the code as desired

  3. Click the debug button on top of test examples

Live debugging ↑

  1. Under Run and Debug, select Run extension and click the start button (or press F5)

  2. The extension host window opened will be running the development version of the VS Code extension. Putting break points in the extension code will allow debugging

  3. If you wish to debug the server process, go under Run and Debug in the extension host window, select Attach to existing server and click the start button (or press F5)

  4. Add breakpoints and perform the actions necessary for triggering the requests you wish to debug

Screen Captures ↑

We include animated screen captures to illustrate Ruby LSP features. For recording new captures, use LICEcap. For consistency, install the Ruby LSP profile included with this repo. Configure LICEcap to record at 24fps, at 640 x 480. If appropriate, you can adjust the height of the capture, but keep the width at 640.

Spell Checking ↑

VS Code users will be prompted to enable the Code Spell Checker extension. By default this will be enabled for all workspaces, but you can choose to selectively enable or disable it per workspace.

If you introduce a word which the spell checker does not recognize, you can add it to the cspell.json configuration alongside your PR.