What components make VIM a good (great) ruby editor?

Question

I'm learning ruby on rails on a linux box and dusting off my VIM skills (skillz?).

When I got started on VIM way back in my c++ days, I had a friend with a great vimfiles folder that had tons of stuff to get started. Starting from scratch, vim is great, but it feels like it could be a lot better.

I currently have:

• vim-ruby
• buffer explorer
• xml-edit (though I don't have it currently working with erb files)

I know that barely scratches the surface of what some more experienced vim/ruby devs have (including the one offs in the vim.rc file).

Is there a list somewhere (or could we create one) of a bunch of the standard vim configurations needed to make programming ruby (and rails) more fun? Is there a zip/tarball somewhere with a good base setup?

Answer 1

take a look at tim pope's repos on git hub. Many, many awesome vim plugins and extensions for working with ruby and rails

http://github.com/tpope