Ruby: Appium driver doesn't show available API or other commands

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Hi,

I am new to Appium and currently trying to develop an automation framework using Appium + Cucumber in Ruby language (which is also new to me). I am using Rubymine as my IDE for this and I am facing a basic issue.

After coding the env.rb part, I am not seeing the API command or any other supported Appium commands when I try to use the $driver global variable for any further operation inside my individual pages. I expect the IDE (Rubymine) to show all these available commands specific to the Appium driver when I write “$driver.” . I expect it to show options like $driver.find_element etc.

I have worked on similar stuff in Java and it completes the code all the item and I was able to look up any Java Doc available. I think this is one of primary reasons for using an IDE.

Is this the way it is or am I doing something wrong? Any suggestions will be really helpful.

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RubyMine can’t autocomplete Ruby code. If you’re looking for auto complete, Java is better.

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Now thats really sad to hear. So in case of a simple syntax mistake, I can find it out only when I run the code? I just tried to misspell the $driver and RubyMine didn’t throw any error.

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Right, RubyMine has no idea if there’s a syntax error. Java is miles ahead in terms of IDE support when compared to Ruby. RubyMine can do some basic checking however most of the time it doesn’t do anything.