From: Markus Echterhoff <Tam@...>
Date: 2007-08-16T00:34:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Any recommendations on ruby editor

On Friday 10 August 2007 18:52:43 harry pillei wrote:
> Hi,
> I am looking into investing in an editor for working with ruby(including
> rails), any recommendations?.
> Experience and feedback appreciated.
>
> thanks
> Hari

I use Gvim with the following extensions, which make it a charm to use. Here 
is a Screenshot. I turned off all Menus and Scrollbars, because I find them 
distractive. The advantage over console vim is scrolling with mousewheel and 
more coloschemes. With those plugins and a decent Colorscheme and some time 
to get used to the (cryptic seeming) usage, Gvim will be your best friend for 
years to come. Screenshot: http://mmisc.de/~tam/gvim.png, I'm following the 
example application in "Agile web development with rails 2nd ed." (which I 
mention in case you also look for a good book to learn rails). The Gvim 
colorscheme is a slightly modified "darkocean" 
(http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=384), I made the white a 
little more grey, so the contrast is not as hard and removed the different 
coloring of empty lines, because it confused me. %)

Have a lot of fun, turning your vim into a powerful rails development IDE 
machine, that's actually fun to use!

PS: Anybody got other useful vim plugins for RoR dev?


1)
REdit
Linked stacktraces (open gvim on click, bzw change the opened file) 
and "footnotes" on your development page.
(script/plugin install <a 
href="http://svn.antono.info/redit">http://svn.antono.info/redit</a>)
(rake redit:install)


2)

BlockComment 1.1:
(Un-)Comment everything you mark with one shortcut ".c" to comment, ".C" to 
uncomment
(http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=473)

3)
matchit :
"%" lets you jump between if and end, between class and end, so see instantly 
where to go, even with bad indentation.
(Ships with vim under: /usr/share/vim/macros/matchit.*)
(else http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=39)

4)
project 1.4.1:
Sidebar with Project files (When used with rails.vim, type ":Rproject", it 
will be preconfigured)
(http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=69)

5)
rails.vim 2.00:
A bunch of interesting stuff, read 
http://svn.tpope.net/rails/vim/railsvim/doc/rails.txt
(http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1567)

7)
Autocomplete function names:
rubycomplete 0.7:
        http://segfault.hasno.info/vim/rubycomplete.vim
        type the beginning, strg-x, strg-o to see a (ugly) list of 
possibilities.

6)
snippetsEmu 1.1:
The autocompletion snippet magic with tab.
(http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1318)
(I needed to hack this a little. The tags ("<{" and "}>") conflict with html 
so I set it to something unneeded ("Ð" and "Æ"), 
(~/.vim/plugins/snippetsEmu.vim Lines 113 and 117) does look confusing, but 
works like a charm. Plus you really should change the default behavior for 
ruby files. There is one error in the ruby definition file (you'll have 
another '>' char and wonder why as well as annoying <newline> on the closure 
of your codeblock, which accumulate when you use it recursivly. For 
completion, here is my tweaked ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/ruby_snippets.vim:


if !exists('loaded_snippet') || &cp
    finish
endif

let st = g:snip_start_tag
let et = g:snip_end_tag
let cd = g:snip_elem_delim

exec "Snippet do do<CR>  ".st.et."<CR>end".st.et
exec "Snippet class class ".st."className".et."<CR>  ".st.et."<CR>end".st.et
exec "Snippet begin begin<CR>  ".st.et."<CR>rescue ".st."Exception".et." 
=> ".st."e".et."<CR>".st.et."end".st.et
exec "Snippet each_with_index0 each_with_index  
do |".st."element".et.", ".st."index".et."|
<CR>  ".st."element".et.".".st.et."<CR>end".st.et
exec "Snippet collect collect 
{ |".st."element".et."| ".st."element".et.".".st.et." }".st.et
exec "Snippet forin for ".st."element".et." 
in ".st."collection".et."<CR>  ".st."element".et.".".st.et."<CR>end".st.et
exec "Snippet doo do |".st."object".et."|<CR>  ".st.et."<CR>end".st.et
exec "Snippet : :".st."key".et." => \"".st."value".et."\"".st.et
exec "Snippet def def ".st."methodName".et."<CR>  ".st.et."<CR>end".st.et
exec "Snippet case case ".st."object".et."<CR>  
when ".st."condition".et."<CR>".st.et."<CR>end".st.et
exec "Snippet collecto collect do |".st."element".et."|
<CR>  ".st."element".et.".".st.et."<CR>end".st.et
exec "Snippet each each 
{ |".st."element".et."| ".st."element".et.".".st.et." }".st.et
exec "Snippet each_with_index each_with_index 
{ |".st."element".et.", ".st."idx".et."| ".st."element".et.".".st.et." }".st.et
exec "Snippet if if ".st."condition".et."<CR>  ".st.et."<CR>end".st.et
exec "Snippet eacho each do |".st."element".et."|
<CR>  ".st."element".et.".".st.et."<CR>end".st.et
exec "Snippet unless unless ".st."condition".et."<CR>  ".st.et."<CR>end".st.et
exec "Snippet ife 
if ".st."condition".et."<CR>  ".st.et."<CR>else<CR>  ".st.et."<CR>end".st.et
exec "Snippet when when ".st."condition".et.st.et
exec "Snippet selecto select do |".st."element".et."|
<CR>  ".st."element".et.".".st.et."<CR>end".st.et
exec "Snippet injecto inject(".st."object".et.") 
do |".st."injection".et.", ".st."element".et."| <CR>  ".st.et."<CR>end".st.et
exec "Snippet reject 
{ |".st."element".et."| ".st."element".et.".".st.et." }".st.et
exec "Snippet rejecto reject do |".st."element".et."| 
<CR>  ".st."element".et.".".st.et."<CR>end".st.et
exec "Snippet inject inject(".st."object".et.") 
{ |".st."injection".et.", ".st."element".et."| ".st.et." }".st.et
exec "Snippet select select 
{ |".st."element".et."| ".st."element".et.".".st.et." }".st.et