Few gems or plugins speed up Rails development like rails-footnotes by José Valim and others. Especially useful is its ability to open files directly in the a text editor from Firefox.
Out of the box, this gem works with Textmate, but it’s quite easy to get it to work with Netbeans. To apply the same process for Vim/gVim integration, proceed like so:
Adjust Filter Prefix
Change your configuration in environment.rb of your Rails project to, for example:
if defined?(Footnotes)
Footnotes::Filter.prefix = ‘gvim://open?url=file://%s&line=%d&column=%d’
end
The protocol can be anything you like, this will now be configured in Firefox.
Configure Firefox
Open about:config in your Firefox location bar and
Right Click > New > String “network.protocol-handler.app.gvim” with content ~/.editor_gvim.rb
Right Click > New > Boolean “network.protocol-handler.external.gvim” with value true
Create Editor Script
Create a script, for example in you home directory, and don’t forget to make it executable:
touch ~/.editor_gvim.rb && chmod +x ~/.editor_gvim.rb
The script could look like so:
#!/usr/local/bin/ruby
file = ARGV.first.split(’file://’).last.split(’&’).first
line = /\&line\=(\d+)/.match(ARGV.first)[1] rescue 0
`gvim –remote-tab-silent “+#{line}” #{file}`
`wmctrl -a “GVIM”`
The last two lines are delimited by backticks and it’s two hyphens (- -) before remote-tab-silent, which might all get eaten by Wordpress, so be sure to adjust after copying and pasting the code above.
Install wmctrl
sudo aptitude install wmctrl
Adjustments
The command in the script above
`gvim –remote-tab-silent “+#{line}” #{file}`
will open each file in a new tab.
If you want every file in a new buffer, simply change it to
`gvim –remote-silent “+#{line}” #{file}`
Finally, nothing stops you from opening the file in gVim and Netbeans simultaneously just by adding
`”/path/to/your/netbeans/executable” “#{file}:#{line}”`
`wmctrl -a “Netbeans IDE 6.5.1″`
NB will usually pick up all the changes automatically but in gVim you’ll have to reload with :e!
The Vim/gVim startup options are not easy to fathom (options go before files etc.), but here is the the documentation.
Update:
Here’s a version which also sets the current vim directory (check with :pwd) to your rails root (prevents overwhelming fuzzy finder):
#!/usr/local/bin/ruby
file = ARGV.first.split(’file://’).last.split(’&’).first
line = /\&line\=(\d+)/.match(ARGV.first)[1] rescue 0
rails_root = /\&rails_root\=(.*)/.match(ARGV.first)[1] rescue ‘~’
`gvim –remote-silent “+cd #{rails_root}” “+#{line}” #{file}`
`”/home/dirk/netbeans-6.5.1/bin/netbeans” “#{file}:#{line}”`
`wmctrl -a “Netbeans IDE 6.5.1″`
`wmctrl -a “GVIM”`
With these settings in environment.rb:
if defined?(Footnotes)
Footnotes::Filter.prefix = “gvim://open?url=file://%s&line=%d&column=%d&rails_root=#{Rails.root}”
end
Vimperator
Now with the Vimperator plugin for Firefox you have round-trip development with gVim and Firefox without touching the mouse.
Hope it helps.
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