I just got started using Vim for Ruby on Rails development. To me, learning Vim is like growing a garden, it doesn’t happen overnight and you have to keep working at it. Also, getting Vim setup isn’t a one-and-done activity like installing a new toilet or a traditional editor/IDE. You have to keep tweaking and customizing it. Anyway, here are some of my notes on how I got started and some quick wins. Please note that this is more of a (rough) guide on how to get Vim setup for Ruby on Rails than it is how to use it.

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Here are some quick tips to keep in mind when coding new methods in Ruby.
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Here’s how to fix that annoying Ruby on Rails popup message: “The program can’t start because msvcrt-ruby18.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.”

This fix applies if you’re using cucumber on Windows.
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Suppose you’re working on your local machine. You’re running Apache/PHP or an all-on-one package like XAMPP. You have a bunch of websites, but you don’t want to store them all under Apache’s webroot. Maybe some of your websites use PHP and you want to test them locally in your browser.

Here’s how to map a directory so you can access it via Apache without it being in the webroot.
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Here’s a little reminder for myself on how I fixed the “sqlite3.dll missing” error message I was getting while setting up a new Ruby on Rails environment.
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This is a reminder for myself for when I want to use a migration to create test data for the development environment only.
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A couple of days ago, I was looking for a way to add a pause after an animation was triggered. This was before jQuery 1.4 was released. I found a couple of solutions including using the javascript function setTimeout or some people would imitate a delay by setting an animation for the desired number of seconds that doesn’t change anything. Something like this…

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