Vim for Rails Developers

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://thoughtbot.com/upcase/videos/vim-for-rails-developers
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surprised you donā€™t show us how to install vim-railsā€¦ or how to open it once it is installedā€¦

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I wonder if there is any quickstart manual about installing VIM with everything you need for rails development. Cause even though Iā€™ve installed vim-rails, it doesnā€™t feel like itā€™s enough to do things in most VIM video tutorials. I know there is dot-files repos, but itā€™s still a bit unclear how to bootstrap only vim using these dot files, and installing plugins one-by-one seems like a slow way.

Thanks.

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@thedanotto - You can find the installation details for vim-rails at the vim-rails Github. Itā€™s currently suggested to use pathogen, a well-supported add-on manager for vim. Assuming you use pathogen, vim-rails should be active as soon as you reopen vim.

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@DmitriySalko I believe thoughtbot has a script called laptop that installs a dev environment on OSX for you,
might want to have a look at that?

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Thanks, Iā€™ll have a look.

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thanks for the help!