How To Install vim-rails on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vim-rails on Ubuntu.
What is vim-rails
vim-rails is:
vim-rails provides several tools for Rails development with vim:
- only affects buffers of files inside Rails projects.
- fills key variables like ‘makeprg’, ‘path’ with appropriate values for your application.
- enhanced syntax highlighting for files in Rails projects.
- interface to Rails’ scripts/*
- automated partial extraction
- integration with project and dbext vim addons, present in the vim-scripts package.
There are three methods to install vim-rails on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install vim-rails Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install vim-rails using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install vim-rails
Install vim-rails Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install vim-rails using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install vim-rails
Install vim-rails Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install vim-rails using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install vim-rails
How To Uninstall vim-rails on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the vim-rails package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove vim-rails
Uninstall vim-rails And Its Dependencies
To uninstall vim-rails and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove vim-rails
Remove vim-rails Configurations and Data
To remove vim-rails configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge vim-rails
Remove vim-rails configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove vim-rails configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vim-rails
Dependencies
vim-rails have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vim-rails package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.