The main reason for the post was that at Hashrocket we benefit from real-time streaming Vim plugins courtesy of Tim Pope and wanted to share how awesome it can be as a Rails editor. I plan to follow up with more on the individual plugins themselves. It would've been a small novel to try and cover each of the plugins themselves in any detail. Most have a solid README on the project page for starters.
VIM Destroys All Other Rails Editors
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Re: VIM Destroys All Other Rails Editors
#42Ugh. Not sure about you, but I think HN should be a IDE/Editor blog post restricted site. There was recently a thread on erlang-general that was almost 100 replies long. It started out as "Is Erlang a Good First Language?"... then slowly dissolved into "IDE Bashing". I had to switch my mailing list options to digest I was getting so many emails each day with personal rants. The thing is, Emacs and Vim are awesome, an…
The reason MacVim and GVim were both mentioned was b/c the setup mentioned would work with either. Never messed with setting up Vim on Windows and wanted to be explicit as to not lead people down a painful path or to get troubleshooting requests.
The other intent was to show people how they could easily set up Vim as a robust Rails editor without needing to learn a ton about how to install Vim plugins which normally assume a strong understanding of Vim to install and get started with.