Hello, I’m posting as often as the men go to the moon! Sad. For a good reason, though. We are having great times at Guiato.

What I bring today is the set of tools I’m using nowadays for developing Grails and Clojure at work.

Editor (gVim with Janus)

I used Sublimetext for almost two years at home and at work. I really like it, but if I understood well, the version 3 is available for purchasing only. And, you know, you have a vim editor. Why not? Ok, pure vi is too much for most people, so put some sauce and you have a Sublimetext like vim editor, or even more powerful. Just use Janus for it and combine with gVim.

It comes with nice color scheemes and lots of plugins. The plugins I use more often are:

1. CtrlP. This is exactly like Control P at Sublime and allows you search your entire project.
2. NERDTree. Simply can’t live without it. It is your project browser.
3. BufferGator. To browse between all your open buffers
4. Tagbar. The campion! This is your code outlook similar to what popular IDEs offer.

There is a nice support for Git, but I stay at pure command line.

Get it up and running is fairly easy. Don’t waste time, go set up yours.

Just a note: Tagbar works perfect for clojure, but I work mainly with groovy and Grails, so you can set ctags to recognize .groovy content:

--langdef=groovy
--langmap=groovy:.groovy
--regex-groovy=/^[ \t]*[(private|public|protected) ( \t)]*[A-Za-z0-9_<>]+[ \t]+([A-Za-z0-9_]+)[ \t]*\(.*\)[ \t]*{/\1/f,function,functions/
--regex-groovy=/^[ \t]*def[ \t]+([A-Za-z0-9_]+)[ \t]*\=[ \t]*\{/\1/f,function,functions/
--regex-groovy=/^[ \t]*private def[ \t]+([A-Za-z0-9_]+)[ \t]*/\1/v,private,private variables/
--regex-groovy=/^[ \t]*def[ \t]+([A-Za-z0-9_]+)[ \t]*/\1/u,public,public variables/
--regex-groovy=/^[ \t]*[abstract ( \t)]*[(private|public) ( \t)]*class[ \t]+([A-Za-z0-9_]+)[ \t]*/\1/c,class,classes/
--regex-groovy=/^[ \t]*[abstract ( \t)]*[(private|public) ( \t)]*enum[ \t]+([A-Za-z0-9_]+)[ \t]*/\1/c,class,classes/

Search

CtrlP is great, but you are not always with your vim open or with your project open. For this, linux offers grep and find. But waht is beyond grep? There is ack-grep!

Believe me you’ll love it. It is extremely practical, fast and developer focused. So you don’t even need to open gVim. Just seach, find edit and commit!

The extra config for ack-grep is a new extension for groovy type and also support for Puppet manifests and templates.

--type-add=groovy=.gsp
--type-set=puppet=.pp,.erb

Fishing the Shell

Lots of friends call me crazy because I invest time in Clojure and use it as much as I can. Also because I left behind “rich” IDEs like Eclipse or IntelliJ IDEA. But come on, you are a senior developer and you should be able to laugh on any IDE’s face. Even if you were coding Java.

But ok, I’m here to talk about Fish Shell. This is my most recent acquisition. Scripting it is easy like candy. Check the tutorial.

I’ve added few scripts to easy connect to a bunch of machines I have to everyday. And adding some color for git is also easy, check this post.

Well, hope you enjoy the tool set. Any news I’ll let you know. Thanks for reading.