I'm not sure where I picked it up from, but I have a git repository template with a post-commit hook that automatically generates a tags file when I commit to, or update the repository. You can find the hooks in my dot-files, here.

Would it be possible for symbols-view to pick up this tags file? Couple of things to note:

• the tags file is at ${PROJECT}/.git/tags; and

• the file references in the tags file are relative to ${PROJECT}/.git (if that makes sense?) So ApplicationController's entry in the tags file is:

  ApplicationController   ../app/controllers/application_controller.rb    /^class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base$/;"      c
  

I discovered the latter when I lazily tried symlinking the existing tags file into my project root and it still wouldn't find the symbols. 😄