pathogen with syntastic (https://github.com/adimircolen/vim_files)

update_bundles

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

git_bundles = [ 
  "git://github.com/astashov/vim-ruby-debugger.git",
  "git://github.com/msanders/snipmate.vim.git",
  "git://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree.git",
  "git://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic.git",
  "git://github.com/timcharper/textile.vim.git",
  "git://github.com/tpope/vim-cucumber.git",
  "git://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive.git",
  "git://github.com/tpope/vim-git.git",
  "git://github.com/tpope/vim-haml.git",
  "git://github.com/tpope/vim-markdown.git",
  "git://github.com/tpope/vim-rails.git",
  "git://github.com/tpope/vim-repeat.git",
  "git://github.com/tpope/vim-surround.git",
  "git://github.com/tpope/vim-vividchalk.git",
  "git://github.com/tsaleh/vim-align.git",
  "git://github.com/tsaleh/vim-shoulda.git",
  "git://github.com/tsaleh/vim-supertab.git",
  "git://github.com/tsaleh/vim-tcomment.git",
  "git://github.com/vim-ruby/vim-ruby.git",
  "git://github.com/vim-scripts/Vim-Rspec.git",
  "git://github.com/vim-scripts/TinyBufferExplorer.git",
  "git://github.com/mattsoutherden/vim-fuzzyfinder_textmate.git",
  "git://github.com/tomtom/checksyntax_vim.git",
  "git://github.com/kchmck/vim-coffee-script.git"
]

vim_org_scripts = [
  ["IndexedSearch", "7062",   "plugin"],
  #["gist",          "12732", "plugin"],
  ["jquery",        "12107",  "syntax"],
  ["vim-vibrantink",    "1794",   "colors"]
]

require 'fileutils'
require 'open-uri'

bundles_dir = File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), "bundle")

FileUtils.cd(bundles_dir)

puts "Trashing everything (lookout!)"
Dir["*"].each {|d| FileUtils.rm_rf d }

git_bundles.each do |url|
  dir = url.split('/').last.sub(/\.git$/, '')
  puts "  Unpacking #{url} into #{dir}"
  `git clone #{url} #{dir}`
  FileUtils.rm_rf(File.join(dir, ".git"))
end

vim_org_scripts.each do |name, script_id, script_type|
  puts "  Downloading #{name}"
  local_file = File.join(name, script_type, "#{name}.vim")
  FileUtils.mkdir_p(File.dirname(local_file))
  File.open(local_file, "w") do |file|
    file << open("http://www.vim.org/scripts/download_script.php?src_id=#{script_id}").read
  end
end

vimrc

"Use Vim settings, rather then Vi settings (much better!).
"This must be first, because it changes other options as a side effect.
set nocompatible

"runtime! autoload/pathogen.vim
filetype off
call pathogen#runtime_append_all_bundles()
call pathogen#helptags()
.
.
.
.
"statusline setup
set statusline=%f "tail of the filename
"display a warning if fileformat isnt unix
set statusline+=%#warningmsg#
set statusline+=%{&ff!='unix'?'['.&ff.']':''}
set statusline+=%*
"display a warning if file encoding isnt utf-8
set statusline+=%#warningmsg#
set statusline+=%{(&fenc!='utf-8'&&&fenc!='')?'['.&fenc.']':''}
set statusline+=%*

set statusline+=%h "help file flag
set statusline+=%y "filetype
set statusline+=%r "read only flag
set statusline+=%m "modified flag
set statusline+=%#warningmsg#
set statusline+=%{SyntasticStatuslineFlag()}
set statusline+=%*