On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 4:39 AM, lasitha <lasitha.ranatunga / gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 6:24 AM, John Wells <lists / sourceillustrated.com>rote:
>> [...]
>>
>> Now, I've played with exuberant ctags and rails.vim, and it's close,
>> but no cigar. Here's what I want: by default in Netbeans and Eclipse,
>> you can ctrl+click a local method or class in your local rails
>> project, but you can also ctrl+click on things defined in gems or in
>> the system libraries that are coded in Ruby. Netbeans for example
>> parses all ruby files in the default system paths and makes them
>> navigable for you. If there are multiple files that define a method,
>> it will present you with a list and allow you to choose between them.
>>
>> How can one accomplish this within vim? If it can be done, I may be
>> able to make the jump full time.
>>
> Hello John,
>
> Take a look at the 'tags' option in vim:
> :h tags-option
>
> It lets you define a set of tag files vim will use for tag lookups (Ctrl-]).
> So you could define something similiar to the following in a ruby ftplugin:
> setl tags=./tags;/Users/lasitha,/usr/local/ruby1.9/lib/tags
>
> The semicolons define un upward search. ':h path' for more on the syntax.
>
> The key to solving your problem though is to add some absolute paths
> to global tag files for the ruby source (not shown above) and gems.
>
> When generating these tag files, it helps to use an excludes file to
> weed out things like rdoc files.  ¨Â ëåå𠧮ãôáçó­åøãìõäåóæéìåéî
> the relevant directories and use them with:
> ctags --exclude=@.ctags-excludes -R .
>
> And lastly i use some bash aliases for gem install and update to make
> sure the tag files are immediately regenerated.
>
> Hope that helps you get converted (it's worth it :).
>
> Oh, btw - a vim-on-rails ML was created recently:
> http://groups.google.com/group/vim-on-rails

Thanks very much...this should get me going in the right direction. I
appreciate the help!

John