For Andy... a simple addition to .vimrc for rails development

.vimrc

set nocompatible
filetype indent plugin on | syn on
set hidden
filetype on
filetype plugin on
filetype indent on

" let's copy paste some lines from documentation
fun! SetupVAM()
    let addons_base = expand('$HOME') . '/.vim/vim-addons'
    exec 'set runtimepath+='.addons_base.'/vim-addon-manager'

    if !isdirectory(addons_base)
        exec '!p='.shellescape(addons_base).'; mkdir -p "$p" && cd "$p" && git clone git://github.com/MarcWeber/vim-addon-manager.git'
    endif

    call vam#ActivateAddons(['rails', 'bundler'], {'auto_install' : 1})

endf
call SetupVAM()