I got tired of exuberant ctags failing on Ruby code (see https://gist.github.com/jimweirich/5440424), so I wrote a version in go.

Features:

• Ruby & Go only
• Emacs TAGS file only
• Minimal command line arguments
• But it's fast

Detects:

• Ruby (extensions .rb and .rake, also files named Rakefile)

  • Classes and Modules
  • Methods
  • Constants
  • attr_reader, attr_writer and attr_accessor definitions
  • Aliases

• Go (extension .go)

  • Top level functions and variables
  • Interfaces
  • Structs
  • Methods

$ gotags [options] file [file...]

Analyze all files listed in the command line. If the file is a directory, then recursively analyze all the files in that directory. If no files are listed, then the current directory ('.') is assumed.

Only the files and extensions listed above are actually handled, all other files are silently ignored.

Command Line Options:

• -v -- Display the version of the program and exit.
• -h -- Display a help message.

Make sure you have a recent installation of the Go language on your system. Then do the following:

$ git clone git://github.com/jimweirich/gotags.git
$ cd gotags
$ go install onestepback.org/gotags
$ cp bin/gotags SOMEWHERE_IN_YOUR_PATH

See the Links Section for links to binary executables.

Copyright 2013 by Jim Weirich

This software is available under the MIT license. See MIT-LICENSE in the repository for details.

• Source: http://github.com/jimweirich/gotags
• Clone URL: git://github.com/jimweirich/gotags.git
• Issues: https://github.com/jimweirich/gotags/issues
• Platform executables:
  • Mac OSX Version 1.1.3
  • Linux-x86 Version 1.1.1