See http://dima-exe.ru/rails-on-emacs or page in rubyforge http://rubyforge.org/projects/emacs-rails/ Dmitry Galinsky just released a rails minor mode that ties many features into one location: Features: * Identation * Code highlight * Non-intellectual autocomplete * Class/methods navigation * Management of WEBrick/Mongrel * Display color log file * Toggle Switch between Action/View and other file (tests, helpers) automatically or with menu * Switching to file from current line f.e. from redirect_to :controller => "foo", :action => "bar", swtiches to this controller/action * TextMate-like snippets (snippets.el) * ERb refactoring (create partial from selection, create helper from block) * Automatic TAGS generation in RAILS_ROOT directory * Quick access to the main configuration files * Documentation search using ri or chm file and Rails API reference in HTML * Quick start svn-status in RAILS_ROOT * Integration with script/generate script/destroy (controller, model, scaffold, migration) * Goto menus for quick access to controllers, models, and other. * Auto-determination of current rails DB settings and running SQL console * Automatic opening of browser on current action (from view or controller) * Debug integration with firefox/ie * Integration with interactive scripts script/console and script/breakpointer * Fast navigation in Rails root hierarchy * Fast running of rails rake with autocomplete * Integration with tests