Ruby Call Hierarchy View

This page gives an overview of how to use the Ruby Call Hierarchy View in RadRails.

Introduction

The Ruby Call Hierarchy View (shown below) displays the loaded callers and callees for a selected Ruby method.

To open a Ruby Call Hierarchy view, if none is open:

Right-click a method name in a source file and select Open Call Hierarchy to open a Call Hierarchy view and show the method's callers.
You can also right-click a method in any hierarchical listing of code (like the Outline view) and select Open Call Hierarchy to open a Call Hierarchy view.

Use the following buttons in the Call Hiearchy View to display information about a method:

Show Callers button - Display all callers in the search scope of the selected function.
Show Callees button - Display all members called by the currently selected function.
Show History List - Display a history of previously displayed call hierarchies.
Menu - Provides the following commands:
- Modifying Search Scope
- Showings Callers or Callees
- Changing the view layout
- Activate or deactivate filters

The Call Hierarchy view context menu includes the following commands:

Open - Opens an editor view containing the function reference.
Focus on - Resets the view to show the selected function.
Declarations - Search the workspace, project, or working set for all function declarations and shows the result in the Search view.
References - Search the workspace, project, or working set for all function references and shows the result in the Search view.