Using Vim and rails

I hate rails. One of many reasons is that Rails forces you to scatter source files in a half dozen directories and then jump around making changes in all of them. Something to make this insane process less insane is the goal of many rails users.
If you are foolish enough to have anything to do with rails, there are some Vim plugins that you can look at:

• Configuring Vim to work with rails, part I
• Configuring Vim to work with rails, part II

Plugins to aid rails development

Rails development has always been a huge pain the ass due to the need to jump around between model, controller, and view directories. I found myself doing java development aided by eclipse and it handles this kind of thing very nicely with a project navigator bar on the left side of the window (in conjunction with the vim plugin for eclipse). So I found myself wondering if eclipse could handle rails. Apparently there was some effort on this back around 2007, but it has fallen by the wayside. Given the ever changing nature of both rails and eclipse, this would need continual care and feeding I would think).

The suggestions is to use the following three vim plugins:

• rails plugin
• project plugin
• taglist plugin

The Rails plugin

• Vim / rails tutorial
• Documentation shipped with the plugin.

The Project plugin

• My notes on the project plugin
• Nice "project" plugin tutorial
• Documentation shipped with the plugin.

The NERD tree plugin

• Documentation shipped with the plugin.
• Nice NerdTree tutorial.

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