When I started working with the new static site generator BridgetownRB, I had to include the node modules folder in my project. This is a requirement as BridgetownRB is using the package manager Yarn or NPM. As I still wanted to write code in RubyMine, I got into a problem when RubyMine started indexing the huge node_module folder. RubyMine would then hang and go into not-responding mode. As of newer versions of RubyMine, I think this is a non-issue. For us with an older version ( < 6.3 ), here is how to solve it:
- Delete the node_modules folder completely.
- Create the folder again manually.
- Open RubyMine and identify the folder.
- Right click the folder in the folders tree, and click “Mark directory as —> Excluded”
- It will now disappear from the tree.
- Run yarn install again. RubyMine should now behave fine.