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Joel Brewer
Joel Brewer

Reputation: 1652

Most efficient way to use tags in vim for Ruby on Rails projects?

I've been using vim for ~1 year and absolutely love it. I feel at peace when I use vim. However, there's been one thing that I simply haven't figured out how to use effectively: tags.

I've googled around, browsed SO, etc. but I still haven't figured out how to use them. When I tried, I ended up with a bunch of tags folders scattered throughout my project, but still was unable to use the tags in a productive manner. I mainly work with Ruby on Rails, but I also work on some WordPress sites as well.

Can someone show me the right way to set up tags in vim when working on Rails projects?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 265

Answers (1)

Ingo Karkat
Ingo Karkat

Reputation: 172520

I don't think there's much Ruby-specific about tags; you probably want to use a single tags database in the root of each individual project.

What I was struggling with the most is the automatic tags update; I simply forgot to run ctags -R from the correct directory.

With the easytags.vim - Automated tag file generation and syntax highlighting plugin, that's handled automatically.

Just put

:set tags=./tags;   " Search for tags upwards from the current file's directory.
:let g:easytags_dynamic_files = 1    " Also look for project-specific tags files.

in your ~/.vimrc and create a tags file once in the project root:

$ cd /path/to/project
$ ctags -R .

Upvotes: 2

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