On Wednesday 27 April 2005 20:15, Joe Van Dyk wrote:
> On 4/27/05, Tilman Sauerbeck <tilman / code-monkey.de> wrote:
> > Brian Schröäer <ruby.brian / gmail.com> [2005-04-27 18:34]:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > > Following all the discussion on vim here recently, I wanted to try it
> > > out. First thing was checking the vim page on ruby-garden and trying
> > > to install vim-ruby. But here I already am stuck. What I did:
> >
> > The Vim releases already contain syntax/indent files for Ruby, so you
> > probably don't have to install the latest vim-ruby release to enjoy Ruby
> > support in Vim.
> >
> > Cannot help you with the installation failure, I'm using the one that
> > ships with Vim, and copied the syntax file to ~/.vim/syntax to get some
> > minor fixes :)
>
> Doesn't vim-ruby embed a ruby interpreter into vim?  So you can run
> small ruby scripts on whatever you're editing?  Or am I thinking of
> something else?

This feature comes with the vim source distribution. You just have to
enable it when you run configure. It also provides a Ruby API for vim.
Type
    :h ruby

Stefan