RadRails Refresher

So I started working a bit harder on a rails project this past weekend (several hours a day) and discovered a few things about Ruby/Rails and my IDE that I thought I'd share (in no particular order):

1. RadRails has the ability to automatically run your unit tests whenever you modify certain files. The AutoTest functionality is great but only if you realize it's there. I had been staring at a big red 'X' in the toolbar occassionally wondering "I wonder what that's for" and then suddenly saw a nice big green checkmark after I fixed a bunch of tests. Duh!
2. ctrl-space is your friend. In the absence of any true "intellisense"-like functionality, RadRails' templates will save you a bunch of typing. In fact if you're a TextMate refugee then try Corban Brook's textmate-like templates for RadRails.
3. Rake is cool, but I always forget all the tasks I can run. Yes even the simple ones like "rake migrate VERSION=3" or "rake db:fixtures:load" seem to continually elude me. Well RadRails has a Rake view. Just make sure you're in a Rails project and then Bob's your uncle.
4. I like watching the development log. And lo and behold RadRails allows me to right click on the .log file in the Rails Navigator and select "Tail". This allows me to watch the end of the file in a console window. I recommend creating a new console view, displaying the tailed log file, and then pinning it. Then drag it somewhere where you can always see it.
5. The servers view allows me to set up a mongrel view and then start, stop, and restart it with the click of a button. It also has a handy little globe button for opening a browser within RadRails that goes to your default URL. The browser's functionality is a bit anemic, but it's still a nice touch.
6. Autotest is awesome but if you want to run a single unit test, just open it in an editor, right click and select "Run As -> Test::Unit Test"
7. When I use Eclipse to do Java editing I often like to click the button in the toolbar that only shows me the selected element in my editor. That way I can focus on a single method at a time. RadRails has this button too but it seems to be permanently disabled. But if you have the outline view kicking around, try clicking on a method and watch what happens.
8. I like to keep the Data Navigator view around to see the table structures. Comes in handy when I can't remember some detail about my data model.
9. My console view doesn't work. Something abut the readline library on Mac OS X I think... Regardless, if it works for you either use it or keep a terminal window open. The console rocks.
10. Thanks to the "has_many :through" blog I discovered that I can add a block to associations in ActiveRecord classes and add methods to these associations. For example, I added a find method to one of my has_many relationships. The cool thing is that the find method is scoped by its outer has_many definition. Not sure if I really understand what's going on under the covers (still figuring this Ruby thing out) but it seems like an elegant way to express something like this: user.blog_entries.find_all_by_tag( tag ).
11. Now if I could only remember what the RadRails shortcut keys were for navigating between models and tests and navigating between controllers and views I'd be happy...(UPDATE: CTRL-SHIFT-V to go between controller and view, CTRL-ALT-T to go between model/controller and test)