Godot Support for RustRover

Community fork of JetBrains/godot-support for RustRover.

GDScript language plugin for RustRover — supports Godot 4.6 and higher.

Features

• GDScript language support (parser, completion, references, inspections)
• Godot LSP integration (auto-connect to Godot editor)
• DAP-based GDScript debugging
• GDExtension/Rust navigation
• Scene file (.tscn) support

Settings · List of features

Installation

From Release (recommended)

1. Download the latest rustrover-gdscript.zip from Releases
2. In RustRover: Settings → Plugins → ⚙️ → Install Plugin from Disk…
3. Select the downloaded .zip file and restart the IDE

Build from Source

Requires JDK 21:

cd gdscript && ./gradlew buildPlugin
# Result: gdscript/build/distributions/rustrover-gdscript.zip

Recommended Godot Editor Settings

When creating or editing GDScript files externally (in RustRover), Godot needs to detect these changes to generate .uid files and update its internal caches. Without this, you may see errors like "Unrecognized UID" or "Could not find base class" until the Godot editor is restarted.

To enable automatic background rescanning, open Editor → Editor Settings in Godot and enable:

Setting	Path	Effect
Import resources when unfocused	interface/editor/import_resources_when_unfocused	Godot rescans the filesystem in the background, even without window focus
Auto reload scripts on external change	text_editor/behavior/files/auto_reload_scripts_on_external_change	Automatically reloads scripts modified outside the editor

Note: These are global Godot editor settings, not per-project settings. They apply to all projects.

History

This plugin was originally developed by David (@IceExplosive) and was available on GitLab and the JetBrains Marketplace. When the original author could no longer maintain the project, JetBrains took over its development. This community fork by DasTholo continues development with a focus on RustRover and Godot 4.6+.

GdScript toolkit (not related to this project)

An independent set of tools for GdScript (Formatter, Linter, and more) that can work together with this plugin.
For example instead of plugin's built-in formatter, you can use theirs

gdformat

• Install by their own tutorial
• Add File Watcher Settings -> Tools -> File Watchers
• File type: GdScript language file
• Scope: Project files
• Program: /home/{username}/.local/bin/gdformat
• Arguments: -l 160 $FilePath$
• Output paths to refresh: $FilePath$
• Enable Auto-save edited files to trigger the watcher
• Thanks to @e.sirkova for mentioning it.

License

MIT License

Based on:

• gdscript by David Horaček (MIT)
• godot-support by JetBrains s.r.o. (Apache 2.0)

Contributing

This project welcomes contributions and suggestions. Please refer to our Guidelines for contributing.