rails.vim cheatsheetEdit

Find a file (with tab completion)

• :Rfind PostsController
• :Rfind models/article

Goto file under cursor

• gf (opens in current window)
• CTRL-W_f (opens in split)

Editing "alternate" files

"Alternate" files are usually specs, and their corresponding file:

• :A (edit alternate file)
• :AS (in split)
• :AV (in vertical split)

Editing "related" files

"Related" files are things like view templates and controllers:

• :R (edit related file)
• :RS (in split)
• :RV (in vertical split)

Summary of "alternate" and "related" files

• in a model the "alternate" is the spec and the "related" is the schema
• in a controller (method) the "alternate" is the spec and the "related" is the view
• in a view the "alternate" is the spec and the "related" is the controller (method)

Less frequently used are:

• in a migration the "alternate" is the previous migration and the "related" is the next migration
• in config/database.yml the "alternate" is config/routes.rb and the "related" is config/environments/*.rb

Explicit jumping commands

These all have tab completion, reasonable defaults, and variants for opening in splits (:RS...) and vertical splits (:RV...):

• :Rcontroller
• :Renvironment
• :Rfixtures
• :Rhelper
• :Rjavascript
• :Rlayout
• :Rlib
• :Rmailer
• :Rmigration
• :Rmodel
• :Robserver
• :Rtask
• :Rview
• :Rspec

Rake integration

• :Rake {task}

The default is to run the spec for the file in the current buffer. (In practice not really very usable because for long-running specs you lose control of Vim for the duration.)