Installing vim with ruby support (+ruby)

Question

I'm trying to get command-t installed for vim but my current version of vim doesn't have the (+ruby) flag. The command "which ruby" shows that ruby is installed.

What do I need to do in order to activate the +ruby flag in vim?

Also, what does the +ruby flag technically mean?

Answer 1

Some package provides vim-ruby on Ubuntu, for example vim-nox.

simply:

sudo apt-get install vim-nox; 

will get you vim with ruby, as well as compiled in "support for scripting with Perl, Python, Ruby, and TCL but no GUI."

sudo apt-get install vim-rails 

will install a "selection of vimscripts that make editing Ruby on Rails applications extremely easy." but as it depends on vim-full and vim-addon-manager, it will also install the vim-gnome version of the GUI, that is "a version of vim compiled with a GNOME2 GUI and support for scripting with Perl, Python, Ruby, and TCL."

Answer 2

I think "Compiling Vim With Ruby Integration On Snow Leopard" might actually help. I'm on exactly same boat at the moment.

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Ok... got it to work. Took me like half hour or so.

This should help (I got Ubuntu):

sudo apt-get install mercurial hg clone https://vim.googlecode.com/hg/ vim cd vim ./configure --enable-rubyinterp make sudo make install 

To test if things look fancy:

vim --version | grep ruby 

Should return something like:

-python3 +quickfix +reltime -rightleft +ruby +scrollbind +signs +smartindent 

Ruby should have plus now. Another trick to test it - enter vim and hit :ruby 1. Should not fail.