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Ricalsin
May 12th, 2011, 07:53 AM
Has anyone else noticed that you cannot get ruby to work in vim on the new Natty 11.04? No vim-ruby in Natty. Vim 7.3 states it needs ruby1.9.1-dev but even that is not getting the "+ruby" in a "vim --version" command after compiling the binaries. This problem stops some significant vim scripts from working.

I have exhausted myself and cannot find an answer. I think the problem is somewhere in the vim version released by Natty (vim-7.3.035) and the latest vim release on the mercurial site. When I used the very latest release of vim (vim-7.3.277) from Mercurial, I WAS able to get the "vim --version" = "+ruby" But that version of vim did not work within Natty, showing a significant error after running "make test" about not being able to locate an object or something (sorry, didn't write it down) - couldn't even get a file to load when running that version of vim. So it loaded the ruby code but then had other problems. Going back to the vim version that was released within Natty (vim-7.3.035) still produced no +ruby in a "vim --version" command though it can open a file and read it.

Yes, I'm doing the obvious; changing the Makefile "--enable-rubyinterp", doing a "make uninstall" a "make clean" and a "make install". Still no success. I'm dreary and a bit pissed that Ubuntu seems to have missed this (significant) error. But I would be happy to know I missed something simple.

Any thoughts? (Thanks.)

Rick

Ricalsin
May 14th, 2011, 04:25 PM
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fooblah
June 15th, 2011, 08:04 PM
I figured this out. The solution is strange.

First, of course fuzzy_file_finder gem must be installed.

Then you'll need to make two edits to ~/.vim/plugins/fuzzyfinder_textmate.vim


First: To fix this error:

Error detected while processing function InstantiateTextMateMode:
line 5:
LoadError: (eval):6:in `require': no such file to load -- fuzzy_file_finder
Add

require 'fileutils'
to line 55 (first ruby line in InstantiateTextMateMode)

Then: To fix this error when using the plugin:


Error detected while processing function <SNR>17_CompleteFunc..212:
line 27:
NoMethodError: private method `split' called for ["."]:Array

Change line 100 to


roots = VIM.evaluate("g:fuzzy_roots")
roots = roots.split("\n") if roots.respond_to?(:split)

from


roots = VIM.evaluate("g:fuzzy_roots").split("\n")

That function used to return a string but now returns an array.


Don't ask how I figured out #1, just totally random thrashing and it worked.