Recently, I watched some Ruby on Rails live-stream and I found out that there is nice feature in VSCode that I didn’t know.

It’s possible to build custom code snippets and use them with only a few keystrokes. This is great productivity improvement.

I added two snippets for Rspec code skeleton and simple Ruby class with two predefined methods, like this:

Code -> Preferences -> User Snippets -> ruby.json

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{
	"Rspec template": {
		"prefix": "desc",
		"body": [
			"require 'rails_helper'",
			"",
			"describe MyClass do",
			"  subject { described_class.new(params) }",
			"  let(:params) {{",
			"",
			"  }}",
			"",
			"  context '' do",
			"    it '' do",
			"",
			"    end",
			"  end",
			"end"
		],
		"description": "Generates RSpec inital skeleton"
	},
	"Class template": {
		"prefix": "cls",
		"body": [
			"# frozen_string_literal: true",
			"",
			"class MyClass",
			"",
			"  def initialize()",
			"",
			"  end",
			"",
			"  def self.call()",
			"",
			"  end",
			"end"
		],
		"description": "Generates new Class template"
	},
}

Link to docs: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/userdefinedsnippets