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Provide completion for keyword arguments in method calls

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
ruby
Domain
developer-experience, tooling

Research direction

Start by tracing the Ruby LSP completion flow for a method call and the logic that identifies the method being typed. Use the example in the issue to determine how required keyword parameters should appear as symbol completions. Done means calls to methods with required keyword arguments offer those argument names without changing unrelated completion behavior.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

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If we know exactly which method the user is currently typing, we can provide completion for the keyword arguments required to invoke that method.

E.g.:

class Foo
  def bar(a:, b:)
  end

  def baz
    baz()
      #^^ when the cursor is here we can show `a` and `b` as possible symbol completions
  end
end
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