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Vim for Rails Developers

http://www.codeulatescreencasts.com/products/vim-for-rails-developers

Intro

• Typeracer
• Keyboard cheat sheet

rails.vim

• Rfind (w/ tab completion)
• gf (go to file under cursor)
• Runittest Rcontroller Rfunctionaltest
• RVunittest (vertical split)
• RSunittest (horizontal split)
• RTunittest (new tab)
• Rake (run tests)
• Rgenerate migration add_foo_to_bar

snipMate

• def + tab (new method): set method name, hit tab again
• sel + tab, map + tab
• .vim/bundle/snipmate.vim/snippets/ruby.snippets
• New snippets in .vim/snippets

ragtag

Mapping (cursor = ^) ~

• <C-X>= foo<%= ^ %>
• <C-X>+ <%= foo^ %>
• <C-X>- foo<% ^ %>
• <C-X>_ <% foo^ %>
• <C-X>' foo<%# ^ %>
• <C-X>" <%# foo^ %>
• <C-X><Space> <foo>^</foo>
• <C-X><CR> <foo>\n^\n</foo>
• <C-X>/ Last HTML tag closed
• <C-X>@ <link rel="stylesheet" ...>
• <C-X># <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" ... />
• <C-X>$ <script src="/javascripts/^.js"></script>

ctags

• Install w/ homebrew, default is crap
• Had to change path to get HB version first
• ctags -R --exclude=.git --exclude=log --exclude=tmp *
• set tags=./tags
• ctrl + ] (jump to definition)
• tag /validates_presence_.* (enter number to jump) ((doesn't work as expected))

ack

• ack --ruby controller
• .ackrc w/ --ignore-dir=rails (ignore rails directory)
• set grepprg=ack, then grep --ruby controller
• :cn (next result), :cp (prev result)

Extras

• yss " wrap line inside double quotes

• ysiw[ wrap word in brackets

• ci" change inside double quotes

• da" delete around double quotes

• daw delete around word (delete whole word)

• gi go to where you were last inserting

• ctrl + o go back one jump

• ctrl + i go forward one jump

• https://github.com/r00k/dotfiles (git blame macro)

• tComment - another comment option

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