rails.vim

What people are saying

• to anyone that uses vim: rails.vim kicks ASS! —motion
• I was sold with just :RSuni<tab><enter> —bitsweat
• love your plugin. already forgot about textmate —victori
• rails.vim makes things like "gf" work. for that alone its awesome :) —vendull
• Grab the rails.vim plugin and there's not much you can't do with that sucker. 8) —rizz
• it's great... I want to have tpope's babies —ReinH
• yep. I want to have tpope's babies —mando

Features

• Automatically detects buffers containing files from Rails applications, and applies settings to those buffers (and only those buffers). You can use an autocommand to apply your own custom settings as well.
• Unintrusive. Only files in a Rails application should be affected; regular Ruby scripts are left untouched. Even when enabled, the plugin should keep out of your way if you're not using its features.
• Provides reasonable settings for working with Rails applications. Rake is the makeprg (and it always knows where your Rakefile is), shiftwidth is 2, and path includes an appropriate collection of directories from your application.
• Easy navigation of the Rails directory structure. gf considers context and knows about partials, fixtures, and much more. There are two commands, :A (alternate) and :R (related) for easy jumping between files, including favorites like model to migration, template to helper, and controller to functional test. For more advanced usage, :Rmodel, :Rview, :Rcontroller, and several other commands are provided.
• Enhanced syntax highlighting. From has_and_belongs_to_many to distance_of_time_in_words, it's here. For Vim 7 users, completefunc is set to enable syntax based completion on CTRL-X CTRL-U, making it easy to complete such long method names.
• Interface to script/*. Generally, use :Rscript about to call script/about. Most commands have wrappers with additional features: :Rgenerate controller Blog generates a blog controller and edits app/controllers/blog_controller.rb.
• Partial extraction and migration inversion. :Rextract file replaces the desired range (ideally selected in visual line mode) with render :partial => 'file', which is automatically created with your content. The @file instance variable is replaced with the file local variable. :Rinvert takes a self.up migration and writes a self.down.
• Integration with other plugins. :Rproject creates a new project.vim project. :Rdbext loads database settings from database.yml for dbext.vim (and this happens by default under most circumstances). Cream users get some additional mappings, and all GUI users get a menu.

Download

Rails

Any version of Ruby on Rails is acceptable but the latest is always recommended. See the download page for details.

Vim

For maximum functionality, you are advised to install Vim 7 or later. However, rails.vim is compatible with Vim 6.x as well, so you don't have to upgrade that Debian Sarge box just yet.

rails.vim

The official source of rails.vim is the vim.org script repository. If this is unaccessable, try this mirror. For the very latest features and bugs, a development version can be retrieved via Subversion Git:

git clone git://git.tpope.net/git/vim-rails.git

Demonstrations

• The screencast
• Partial extraction in action

Contact

The rails.vim author can be emailed at vim at tpope. info. He can also be found on freenode, frequenting #vim and #rubyonrails.