I found a plugin for VIM that was designed just for Rails coding by Tim Pope. I thought the first line of the documentation was great
“TextMate may be the latest craze for developing Ruby on Rails applications,
but Vim is forever.”
It provides:
- quick navigation commands from model to view and controller
- rake integration
- extends ‘gf’ command to understand Rails
- CTRL+X, CTRL+U autocompletion
- interface to the script commands
- convenient log file viewing