VIM on Rails

VIM on Rails is an opinionated sets of VIM plugins, colorschemes, settings and shortcuts design for Ruby on Rails development. It's a work in progress and I will add features along the way.

I will try to document possible scenarios developers found themselves when writing Ruby on Rails code. For each scenario I'll list the way I've solved it.

Installation

gem install exuberant_ctags ri_vim git clone https://github.com/soulnafein/vim-on-rails.git cd vim-on-rails rake install

This will take care of your existing .vim folder and .vimrc .gvimrc files You can restore your previous VIM environment by typing:

rake uninstall

Use cases

Editing

Common developers editing needs. I will assume a basic knowledge of VIM modes, movement commands and so on.

Move one or more lines up or down the file

CTRL + UP or CTRL + DOWN moves one line. Selects more than one line in visual mode to move them up as well (e.g. SHIFT+V)

Move a whole method definition up and down

TODO

Quickly saving a file

Just press CTRL+S baby! Because :w is just awkward. I might actually try to implement the autosave file when it loses focus like in RubyMine

Press CTRL+ALT+S to save all buffers (e.g. :wall)

Code completion (based on word in the file)

CTRL + SPACE

Jump to method or class in current file

Not sure yet about the shortcut yet. The command is :FufBufferTagAll and it's provided by FuzzyFinder plugin

Surround current visual selection with double quotes

I have to use surround.vim plugin but I'm not sure how yet

Jump to definition of current cursor element

Not available yet.

Open file in current window

Open a file by using FuzzyFinder

CTRL+SHIFT+N

Switch to currently open buffer

Again thank you FuzzyFinder ALT+SHIFT+N

Open file in the same folder as current one

,e and type the name of the file and enter

Window splits

Split vertically

CTRL+W, v

Split horizontally

CTRL+W, n

Move between windows

CTRL+W, direction where direction is one of h,j,k,l

Enlarge current window (ZoomWin plugin)

,, and the same again to zoom out

Debugging

Not implemented yet