Lately, I’ve been envious of graphic text editors and the way they navigate through project files. I’ve been doing a lot of tutorial projects in Ruby and Javascript along with cloning documentation from github as a reference offline. I downloaded atom to accomplish this but I’m sacrificing the speed of working with a vim/tmux setup. After watching Upcase’s latest Weekly Iteration on Vim, I decided to try achieving a deeper understanding of Vim’s capabilities.

Rails Vim commands

• :PluginInstall - Install Vundle plugins

• gf - Go to File

• CTRL + o - Go back to the previous file

• CTRL + i - Go forward in visited files

• :jumps - List visited files

• RcontrollerJump - to relevant controller, as if you are in a model file, and you want to jump to its controller.

• RmodelJump - to the model

• RviewJust - add the name of the view like (index, show, edit) to jump to the relevant view.

• RunittestJump - to the relevant unit test.

• RfunctionaltestJump - to the relevant test.

• RintegrationtestJump - to the integration test, integration spec, or cucumber feature specified.

• RspecJump - to the given spec.

• RmigrationUse - tab completion to choose from the available migrations and jump to one of them.

• RschemaJump - to the project schema.

• RmailerJump - to the given mailer.

• RhelperJump - to the given helper.

• RjavascriptJump - to given JavaScript or CoffeScript file.

• RstylesheetJump - to given stylesheet.

• RtaskJump - to given task.

• RlibJump - to given lib, if no arguments specified it jumps to the Gemfile.

• RlayoutJump - to the layout of the current controller.

• :RV - Open files in vertical split windows

• :RS - Open files in horizontal splits

• :RT - Open files in new tabs

• :RD - Open files in current buffer

• :Rgenerate migration add_something_to_tablename

• :Rserver, :Rserver! and :Rserver!- - Running, Restarting, and Killing the Serve

• :Rpreview - Open the correct URL for the current file

Vim-rspec

• map <Leader>t :call RunCurrentSpecFile()<CR>

• map <Leader>s :call RunNearestSpec()<CR>

• map <Leader>l :call RunLastSpec()<CR>

• map <Leader>a :call RunAllSpecs()<CR>

Vim plugins to checkout

• vim-snipmate - Creates code templates

• ag.vim - Searching similar to grep and ack

• tcomment_vim - A plugin to comment out blocks of code

• vim-ruby-refactoring - Shortcuts for common ruby refactoring techniques

• vim-bundler - Ability to run bundler from vim

Commands I’ve learned

• gem pristine --all --only-executables

• rails _4.1.0_ new respond_to_4.

• gem install rails -v "~>4.0.0"

• rake paperclip:refresh:missing_styles