John Maclean wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> This has probably been done before but I've looked through 5000+ emails and I've not seen a simple solution. I'd like to have two space indentation for *.rb files or those whose first line begins with !#/usr/bin/ruby. At the moment vim gives me eight spaces, (or is it a tab?).
> [...]

The best answer is to create a file ~/.vim/ftplugin/ruby.vim with the
following

  set ts=2 sw=2 sts=2 et

Regards,
Gavin