Today when searching for a better editor for Ruby and Rails coding again, I found this excellent work by Tim Pope: rails.vim. It adds some really nice features to VIM, my favorite editor of all time. It’s as simple as vi but with more powerful features like color coding, code completion and file navigation.

I have installed the following plugins for vim:

1. minibufexpl.vim

2. matchit.vim

3. opsplorer.vim

4. project.vim

5. dbext.vim

6. fuzzyfinder.vim

7. fuzzyfinder_textmate.vim

8. rubycomplete.vim

9. vimballPlugin.vim

10. snippetsEmu.vim

11. rails.vim

12. vibrantink.vim

13. haml.vim

Here’s my .vimrc:

filetype plugin indent on
syntax on
set nocompatible
set nowrap

set nu
set tabstop=2
set shiftwidth=2
set softtabstop=2
set ai

set expandtab
set smarttab

"set guifont=Courier:h10
set guifont=Monaco:h18
set laststatus=2
set ignorecase
set incsearch hlsearch
set noerrorbells
set visualbell
set showcmd
set clipboard+=unnamed

"colorscheme vividchalk 
colorscheme vibrantink

let g:miniBufExplMapWindowNavVim = 1
let g:miniBufExplMapWindowNavArrows = 1
let g:miniBufExplMapCTabSwitchBufs = 1
let g:miniBufExplModSelTarget = 1

let g:rubycomplete_rails = 1
let g:rails_default_file = 'config/database.yml'