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By Amanda & Michael Morin, About.com Guides to Ruby

Take a Look at rails.vim

Tuesday October 14, 2008

With differing rules for highlighting and indenting, editing a Rails application can present a challenge for any text editor. Vim is a powerful text editor that utilizes syntax highlighting and automatically indents new lines to the previous level. It's possible to edit Rails applications using Vim, but it's much easier to do it with rails.vim installed. The specialized script helps to solve the script/server dilemma and has a number of commands to make jumping between files simpler.

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