Vim as a ruby IDE

Plugins asset for rubyists

• Plugins
• Installation
• Update
• Dependencies

Plugins

File explorer

• nerdtree

Class outline viewer

• tagbar

Fuzzy search

• ctrlp.vim

Grep

• ack.vim

Find and replace

• far.vim

Syntax checker

• syntastic

Autocompletion

• vim-autocomplpop - automatic trigger complete popup menu
• cmdline-completion - command line completion
• vim-endwise - wisely add "end" in ruby, endfunction/endif/more in vim script, etc

Snippets

• vim-snipmate
• vim-snippets

Ruby

• vim-rails
• vim-rake
• vim-bundler
• vim-rvm
• vim-rbenv
• vim-rubocop

Tests

• vim-test

Additional syntaxes and markup/programming languages

• vim-polyglot

Git

• vim-gitgutter - shows a git diff in the gutter (sign column) and stages/undoes hunks
• vim-fugitive - git wrapper
• committia.vim - better editing on commit messages
• vim-extradite - git commit browser

Refactoring tools

• vim-ruby-refactoring
• NrrwRgn
• vim-extract

Other

• vim-rooter - changes Vim working directory to project root
• caw.vim - comment plugin
• delimitMate - insert mode auto-completion for quotes, parens, brackets, etc
• vim-pasta - pasting in Vim with indentation adjusted to destination context
• splitjoin.vim - changes the transition between multiline and single-line code
• vim-change-hash-syntax - changes Ruby hash syntax
• vim-trailing-whitespace - highlights trailing whitespace in red and provides command to fix it
• vim-signature - toggle, display and navigate marks
• tabline.vim - configure tab labels
• vim-searchindex - display number of search matches & index of a current match
• file-line - enabling opening a file in a given line
• emmet-vim - provides support for expanding abbreviations similar to emmet
• MatchTag - highlights the matching HTML tag when the cursor is positioned on a tag

Installation

Vundle

1. Copy plugins file to the vim config directory

    curl -o ~/.vim/plugins.vim https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lucerion/vim-as-a-ruby-ide/master/vundle.vim
   

2. Add source ~/.vim/plugins.vim line between call vundle#begin() and call vundle#end()

3. Open vim and run :PluginInstall command

Pathogen

1. Copy setup scripts

    curl -o pathogen.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lucerion/vim-as-a-ruby-ide/master/pathogen.sh -o plugins.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lucerion/vim-as-a-ruby-ide/master/plugins.sh
   

2. Make scripts executable

    chmod 766 pathogen.sh plugins.sh
   

3. Run ./pathogen.sh

Plug

1. Copy plugins file to the vim config directory

    curl -o ~/.vim/plugins.vim https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lucerion/vim-as-a-ruby-ide/master/plug.vim
   

2. Add source ~/.vim/plugins.vim line between call plug#begin() and plug#end()

3. Open vim and run :PlugInstall command

Vim packages (vim 8, neovim)

1. Copy setup scripts

    curl -o vim-packages.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lucerion/vim-as-a-ruby-ide/master/vim-packages.sh -o plugins.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lucerion/vim-as-a-ruby-ide/master/plugins.sh
   

2. Make scripts executable

    chmod 766 vim-packages.sh plugins.sh
   

3. Run ./vim-packages.sh

Update

Vundle

1. Copy last asset version

    curl -o ~/.vim/plugins.vim https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lucerion/vim-as-a-ruby-ide/master/vundle.vim
   

2. Open vim and run :PluginUpdate command

Plug

1. Copy last asset version

    curl -o ~/.vim/plugins.vim https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lucerion/vim-as-a-ruby-ide/master/plug.vim
   

2. Open vim and run :PlugUpdate

Dependencies

• universal-ctags or exuberant-ctags (tagbar plugin)
• ack or ag or grep (ack.vim plugin)