Intractable Complexity

Protip: you can use :<tab> to quickly write out a bunch of hash pairs in Ruby. Rails coding especially tends to involve writing a fair amount of hash pairs. The default snippet makes this a lot more pleasant (what big effect such a small snippet can have).

However, for some odd reason, the last tab-stop in the default snippet is just a comma. I can’t imagine what purpose that has – it would be much nicer to first select the comma (so you can just delete it and move on to something else) and have another tab-stop after that that, right next to another double-colon so you can make a new pair instantly. So… here it is:

:${1:key} => ${2:"${3:value}"}${4:, :$5}